The principal goal of this study was to provide analysis of and recommendations on the need for and feasibility of a geothermal reservoir insurance program. Five major tasks are reported: perception of risk by major market sectors, status of private sector insurance programs, analysis of reservoir risks, alternative government roles, and recommendations.

A human factors engineering design review of the Palo Verde control room simulator was performed at the site on September 15 through September 17, 1981. Observed human factors design discrepancies were given priority ratings. This report summarizes the team's observations of the control room design and layout and of the control room operators' interface with the control room environment. A list of the human factors strengths observed in the Palo Verde control room simulator is given.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Paula Billeg receives her nursing cap during a ceremony at St. Anthony's Hospital to begin training, along with 29 other students, in a three-year nursing program at the hospital."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The tactical team of the Midwest City Police Department was recently honored by Tinker Air Force Base for its efforts in curbing narcotics traffic in the area."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fourteen candles would have been on Charlotte Kinsey's birthday cake today, just waiting to be wished on and blown out."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Jeffrey Nokes, Oklahoma City, and Debra Bluford-Johnson forgot about food."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Marty Korte shows off her western duds to Mrs. R. G. Dolan."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Fred G. Jones"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Opal Davenport inspects a pair of corduroy pants at a yard sale Friday for the benefit of Our Lady of Fatima School in Nicoma Park."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tigers' fan Lisa Balentine has little to cheer about in 28-7 loss to Hobart."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Yukon head coach Dennis Black has a heart-to-heart talk with his offensive unit during the second quarter of Friday night's game with Stillwater."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Debra Bluford-Johnson, Lawton, plays mama rose."

A conceptual design study of a large 12-T yin-yang pair of coils, typical of the plug coils envisioned for a tandem-mirror facility to follow MFTF, has been completed. Because of its larger size and field strength, the magnetic forces are much greater than those experienced on MFTF. The main purpose of this study, therefore, is to assess the feasibility of such a device, paying particular attention to mechanical stress and conductor strain. The conductor proposed operates at 15.6 kA and consists of a rectangular half-hard copper stabilizer with a Nb-Ti insert in the low-field regions and Nb/sub 3/Sn in the high field. The coil is divided into four sections in the longitudinal direction, with steel substructure to limit the winding stress to an acceptable level. The conductor is cryostatically stabilized in superfluid He at 1.8K and 1.2 atm, with an operating heat flux of 0.8 W.cm/sup -2/.

Core snubbers, located near the neutral beam source ends of the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF) Sustaining Neutral Beam Power Supply System (SNBPSS) source cables, protect the neutral beam source extractor grid wires from overheating and sputtering during internal sparkdowns. The snubbers work by producing an induced counter-emf which limits the fault current and by absorbing the capacitive energy stored on the 80 kV source cables and power supplies. A computer program STACAL was used in snubber magnetic design to choose appropriate tape wound cores to provide 400 ..cap omega.. resistance and 25 J energy absorption. The cores are mounted horizontally in a dielectric structure. The central source cable bundle passes through the snubber and terminates on three copper buses. Multilam receptacles on the buses connect to the source module jumper cables. Corona rings and shields limit electric field stresses to allow close clearances between snubbers. A filament circuit shunt bias winding wound on a dielectric cylinder surrounds the cores. The dc voltage holdoff of a single snubber has been tested. Current and voltage behavior during capacitor bank and source cable discharges are presented.

Heat is radiated from both the vacuum vessel that houses the magnet and the heated plasma that exists at the central region of the magnets. Approximately 30 kW of heat will be transmitted to the 311 m/sup 2/ of magnet surface area from these two heat sources. We can reduce this heat load substantially by installing liquid nitrogen (LN)-filled panels around the magnets to counteract the 300/sup 0/K vessel wall temperature. When flowing the LN inside the panels, the temperature drops to 85/sup 0/K. These LN panels also serve as thermal protection for the helium pipings in the MFTF magnet system. However, near the plasma where a higher heat load is generated, we must add water panels to protect the LN panels. All the LN panels, water panels, and their manifoldings are called the magnet liners. Of the total of 344 pieces, 240 are used directly on the magnets. The support system that mounts these LN liner panels on the magnets is the topic of this paper.

The conductor development and the magnet design and construction for the MFTF are described. Future plans for the Mirror Program and their influence on the associated superconductor development program are discussed. Included is a summary of the progress being made to develop large, high-field, multifilamentary Nb/sub 3/Sn superconductors and the feasibility of building a 12-T yin-yang set of coils for the machine to follow MFTF. In a further look into the future, possible magnetic configurations and requirements for mirror reactors are surveyed.

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

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Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.