Launch scenarios for electron-cyclotron power into TIBER-II equilibria are presented. The power is absorbed outside the q = 2 flux surface, and the driven current significantly modifies the current profile, which may serve to suppress tearing-mode instabilities and prevent disruptions. A feedback-stabilization scheme may suppress the instabilities with very modest incident power. One of the launch scenarios is also effective for heating the plasma core during the startup phase. 15 refs., 4 figs.

The DNA repair systems of rodent and human cells appear to be at least as complex genetically as those in lower eukaryotes and bacteria. The use of mutant lines of rodent cells as a means of identifying human repair genes by functional complementation offers a new approach toward studying the role of repair in mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. In each of six cases examined using hybrid cells, specific human chromosomes have been identified that correct CHO cell mutations affecting repair of damage from uv or ionizing radiations. This finding suggests that both the repair genes and proteins may be virtually interchangeable between rodent and human cells. Using cosmid vectors, human repair genes that map to chromosome 19 have cloned as functional sequences: ERCC2 and XRCC1. ERCC1 was found to have homology with the yeast excision repair gene RAD10. Transformants of repair-deficient cell lines carrying the corresponding human gene show efficient correction of repair capacity by all criteria examined. 39 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.

Following the accident at the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986, we performed a variety of measurements to determine the level of the radioactive fallout on the western United States. We used gamma-spectroscopy to analyze air filters from the areas around Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), California, and Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Milk from California and imported vegetables were also analyzed. The levels of the various fission products detected were far below the maximum permissible concentration levels.

The goals of the newly formed Robotics and Intelligent Systems Program are discussed. The application of the remote systems technology developed by the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program for the Department of Energy is presented. The activities (satellite refueling and space station truss assembly) with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are presented in a videotape format with narration by the presenter. The goals of technology transfer to the private sector and the potential positive impact on the community conclude the oral presentation.

A coupled channel analysis has been carried out using amplitudes of the K/sub s//sup 0/K/sub s//sup 0/ system produced in the reaction ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. K/sub s//sup 0/K/sub s//sup 0/n at 22 Gev/c, which contained about 40,000 events in the low-t region (absolute value of t-tmin < 0.1 Gev/sup 2/). The I/sup G/ = 0/sup +/, J/sup PC/ = 0/sup + +/, 2/sup + +/, 4/sup + +/ amplitudes from this analysis is considered, together with available data from other experiments in channels with the same quantum numbers in order to determine which 0/sup + +/ and 2/sup + +/ isoscalar mesons have significant pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar couplings. It is found that we need one pole for the 4/sup + +/ amplitudes while the 2/sup + +/ needs five poles and the 0/sup + +/ needs 7 poles.