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The technology, cost and potential of geothermal resources in California are examined. The production of power from dry stream fields is expanding in Northern California, at The Geysers, at costs that compare favorably with alternate means of generation. The possibility exists that economic production of power can be started in the Imperial Valley, but numerous issues remain to be resolved; chief among them is the demonstration that commercially valuable aquifers indeed exist. The production of demineralized water from the geothermal fluids of the Imperial Valley depends, among other things, upon the identification of other sources of water for power plant cooling, or for reservoir reinjection, should it be necessary to avoid subsidence. It would appear that water production, without the income-producing capability of associated power generation, is not economically reasonable. The pace of geothermal development at the Geysers could probably be accelerated perhaps offering the opportunity for maintenance of adequate generating reserves should their nuclear construction program be delayed. The unknown factors and risks involved seem to preclude the Imperial Valley resource from being immediately effective in improving the power generation picture in Southern California. However, in the next decade, geothermal power could provide a useful energy increment, perhaps 10 …

Electromagnetic transition rates within the /sup 38/Cl and /sup 40/K nuclei were studied through lifetime measurements with a double-coincidence variant of the Doppler-shift-attenuation method. In /sup 40/K the excitation energies (MeV) and measured mean lives (psec) are 0.800 (0.56 +- 0.13), 0.891 (1.53/sub -0.35//sup +0.40/), 1.959 (0.7 +- 0.5), 2.047 (0.49 +- 0.10), 2.070 (0.4/sub -0.2//sup +0.3/), 2.103 (0.54 +- 0.15), 2.261 (0.05 +- 0.05), 2.290 (0.33/sub -0.20//sup +0.40/), 2.291 (0.31/sub -0.12//sup +0.18/), 2.419 (0.55/sub -0.30//sup +0.85/), 2.575 (0.22 +- 0.10), 2.626 (0.32/sub -0.16//sup +0.40/), 2.731 (less than 0.120), 2.787 (0.13/sub -0.13//sup +1.00/), 3.110 (less than 0.14), 3.228 (0.04 +- 0.04), and 3.629 (less than 0.10). In /sup 38/Cl the lifetime results are 0.755 (0.30 +- 0.60), 1.309 (0.55/sub -0.20//sup +0.40/), 1.617 (1.5/sub -0.6//sup +1.2/), 1.692 (1.3/sub -0.3//sup +0.5/), 1.746 (1.1 +- 0.5), 1.785 (0.10/sub -0.08//sup +0.10/), 1.981 (0.26 +- 0.06), and 2.743 (0.05 +- 0.03). The energies of the low-lying (..pi..d/sub /sup 3///sub 2//)/sup +-1/ (..nu..f/sub /sup 7///sub 2//) shell-model states in /sup 38/Cl and /sup 40/K are known to be accurately related by the Pandya transformation. The (d/sub /sup 3///sub 2//)(f/sub /sup 7///sub 2//) model, when used with effective magnetic moments, can also approximately reproduce the /sup 40/K …

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Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority of House Members to travel at State expense in privately owned airplanes on official business within and out of Texas.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Authority to establish a "Central Services Account" for Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University School of Medicine.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Effect of H.B. 1099, 62nd Leg., R.S. 1971 on procedure in assesssing property, such as the Harris County Domed Stadium and other leaseholds in the County, and the proper application to such assessments.

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This report discusses the rights of service-members to refuse service abroad if the foreign service was in an undeclared war. The lawsuit of the State of Massachusetts which was brought against the federal government after the passage of a law in Massachusetts giving service-members this right is discussed as well as various other judicial decisions made in lower courts regarding the issue.

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This report documents technical progress at the Santa Barbara Division and the Las Vegas Division. Topics reported on from Santa Barbara include: ecology studies at NTS, passive neutron detection techniques, Henre spectrum modifier, exposure rate conversion studies, delineation of cosmic ray effects, development of isotope contouring techniques, initial radiation studies, detector array response calculations, and arms data analysis compendium. The Las Vegas Division reports on: radiation propagation and free field experiments, Henre, bio-med studies support, IR scanner interpretation techniques, arms support, and pertinent projects relative to DBM programs.

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The advent of very high power, high energy pulsed laser systems has stimulated considerable thinking regarding how such systems might be used to engender thermonuclear microexplosions, and, in particular, explosions which may produce more energy than the inputted laser energy or even more energy than that used to pump the laser. Some of the basic physical principles and processes constraining laser-CTR proposals will be discussed, and application of them made to establish basic levels of feasibility of these published types of CTR schemes. It is demonstrated that this class of thermonuclear microexplosions has no potential CTR utility with lasers likely to be available in the next few years.

This report discusses diseases which cause kidney failure, dialysis treatment for patients with end-stage kidney failure, and kidney transplants (both the process and financing needs and programs). Legislation in Congress related to medical research and aid for patients in need of kidney transplants is also discussed.

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