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A brief review of the Tormac program is given. The Tormac IV, Tormac V, and puffer experiments are mentioned. (MOW)

The Kansas City Division of the Bendix Corp. is a manufacturing facility. It uses computer graphics to prepare formal drawings in a specified drawing system. Introduction of a system worked out with Sandia Laboratories resulted in reduced time for through-put, faster processing of changes, and steady (rather than increased) employment figures. The system has been in operation for 27 months. It cost about $300,000, and has been used on printed wiring boards, hybrid microcircuits, and test equipment schematics. This report consists primarily of slides, with little text as such. (RWR)

A general overview of geothermal energy is presented. The current usage, geological origin, and environmental effects of geothermal development are summarized with emphasis on the numerous facets of the resource that may be singled out by interested individuals for further study. The conclusion is made that total geothermal development will be but a small percentage of the U.S. energy requirement, but that geothermal energy is and will be regionally significant as an energy resource.

We have made preliminary designs of tandem mirror fusion reactors burning D-T fuel and of fusion-fission (hybrid) tandem mirrors producing both fissile fuel and electricity. For the hybrid reactor, we find that by using stream-stabilized, 2XIIB-like plugs and by injecting 200-keV deuterium beams into a tritium-plasma target confined electrostatically in the solenoid (two-component operation), we obtain a useful Q (fusion power/injection power) near unity. The D-T tandem reactor parameters are optimized to obtain the minimum capital cost per kW(e) net. For $200/kW(e) of 1200-keV neutral beam injection power in the plugs and a solenoid cost of about $3 million per metre length, the optimum Q is near 5. To allow for more expensive injector costs, a higher D-T reactor Q of 10 is obtainable with either increased power output or decreased neutron wall loading. Fokker--Planck calculations show steady-state Q approximately 5 for D-D tandem reactors burning only deuterium fuel and its reaction products, with most of the charged-particle fusion power recovered in a direct converter.