Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 06/29/05 to the Commissioners from Baltimore County Executive James Smith in support of the BRAC recommendations regarding the state of MD.

Contains general notes and research from Navy Team Analyst David Epstein regarding NSWC Indian Head, MD

This report describes results on six years of research on how bacteria store nickel and then mobilize it into the active center of enzymes.

The present report resumes the research activities of the Plasma Spectroscopy/Diagnostics Group at Johns Hopkins University performed on the NSTX tokamak at PPPL during the period 1999-2009. During this period we have designed and implemented XUV based diagnostics for a large number of tasks: study of impurity content and particle transport, MHD activity, time-resolved electron temperature measeurements, ELM research, etc. Both line emission and continuum were used in the XUV range. New technics and novel methods have been devised within the framework of the present research. Graduate and post-graduate students have been involved at all times in addition to the senior research personnel. Several tens of papers have been published and lectures have been given based on the obtained results at conferences and various research institutions (lists of these activities were attached both in each proposal and in the annual reports submitted to our supervisors at OFES).