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basis. International collaboration will require stable international 

 commitments to assure the long-term benefits contemplated by the 

 collaboration and to avoid burdening the remaining partners by any 

 reduction in support by one of them. Prior perceptions of 

 unreliability, justified or not, may inhibit collaborative agreement 

 unless overcome. Limitations on technology transfer constitute an 

 external condition, imposed principally to safeguard national 

 security. International collaboration in magnetic fusion would 

 certainly be hindered by restrictive export control, but the outlook 

 is that the regular case-by-case determinations will result in an 

 acceptable situation. 



Beyond these points, decisions specific to each case will have to 

 be made about the net flow of funds among the partners; the use of 

 existing institutional frameworks or the establishment of new ones; 

 details of project management; and the capture of intellectual, 

 industrial, and commercial benefits. In short, there is a host of 

 considerations that must be resolved in the implementation, but all of 

 these appear either workable or bearable, as the experience of many 

 prior collaborative undertakings in diverse fields has shown. 

 Consequently, given the intent to collaborate and the technical 

 substance of it, satisfactory agreement and implementation should be 

 achievable. 



