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• Publication Date: December 5, 1967
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5 December 1,967 CC 8 USSR NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Although the earthquake in question was of no greater magnitude than many
others that occur every year, the fact that it took place beneath a big city
made it possible to study it in greater detail.
The earthquake was connected with a mighty local fracture of the earth's core
in the Tashkent area. A certain amount of information is available on changes
that occurred in the hydrochemical contents in drilled wells, and these changes
are connected with the repeated tremors of this earthquake. Unfortunately, no
methods of forecasting the time and place of an earthquake have yet been evolved
in any country, although, with available modern equipment, it is now possible
to tackle this problem in the USSR, in Japan, and in the United States.
At the moment, a search is afoot to determine the most recognizable forerunners
of earthquakes. Among these forerunners are changes in the character of the
constantly occurring deformations in the earth's core. It is known, for instance,
that mountains are constantly growing, although very closely and imperceptibly.
These processes are accompanied by some changes which, according to some data,
occur before earthquakes; hence, the importance of'carrying on observations in
this field. Uzbek scientists consider that the concentration of radon gas that
has been observed in drilled wells is in some way connected with the earthquake.
Another important problem is connected with building. Seismologists are not
only concerned in studying the forerunners of earthquakes, but must provide
builders with data which would help them in erecting quake-resistant structures.
The Tashkent earthquake damage was greatly decreased in the case of buildings
where this had been taken into consideration. Account. must be taken of the extra
load taken on by buildings during earth tremors and scientists are now engaged
in research into the most precise data on this subject.
INSTITUTE SET UP TO STUDY INVERSION OF ENERGY
Moscow TASS International Service in English 0705 GMT 4 Dec 67 L
[Text] Moscow--Soviet scientists have set up an institute to study the problems
of the inversion of energy. The new scientific center will seek more economical
and effective ways to use the resources of energy, ways to restore by inversion
the energy scattered in space, and ways of centration of energy. Tens of
major scientists, engineers, and designers will work on these problems without
stopping their main occupations and without additional pay.
The experiments of the scientific center will be staged at the Institute of
In c cn ~r3 Moscow. The center is headed by Prof Pavel substantiated the basic points of introscopy as science.
"Scientists have to solve a topical problem--find means for the recovery of diffused
energy," Professor Oshchepkov told TASS. As an example, he referred to the
galvanic cells which consume heat from ambient space when they generate
electricity.
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"To solve the problem of utilizing diffused energy it is necessary, first of ally to
'close the circuits in the field of, for example, conversion of heat into electricity
and back, the conversion ratio being close to one. It is possible that this principle
of concentration of energy may be put into practice on the basis of the conversion and
transfer of energy inside a solid body by means of electrons," the scientist said,
"According to the principle of conservation of energy, energy can be neither created
nor destroyed. Modern natural science makes scientists come to the conclusion that
there exists a fundamental third law of nature: the law of concentration of energy
mass, This law is an. integral part of the entire law of the development of matter from
simple to more complicated forms. Diffusion of energy should be regarded as deconcentra-
tion of energy. Th.orefore, concentration and deconcentration of energy are the two
sides of the fundamental law of nature," Professor Oshchepkov said.
(Text) A new atom.i, reactor called Peace [Mir] has been built in record time at the
Melekess Atomic Reac r Research Institute, It is the most powerful and perfected oat"
all research reactors at only in the USSR, but in Europe too, It is intended for the in
vestggation of rriaterial in.Lntensive neutron streams and in high temperature conditions.
The new atomic reactor was ade for only peaceful purposes, and the word fully corre-
sponds to its designation. t is made up of the initial letters of the name material
research reactor [materialove .cheskiy issledovatelskiy reaktor].
The% power of the reactor is 100,000 megawatts. In a normal reactor the material has to
remain for a number of years to receive the radiation dose which the Peace gives in a
few?,rmonths. The Peace uses highly enriched uranium for fuel. The reactor can work at
full power without strain for 20-22 days. The new reactor is of the so-called pool
[bassexnyy] type, Its active zone is located under a layer of water.
Moscow TASS International Service in English 0734 GMT 2 Dec 67 L
(Text) Moscow--A fast-neutron rea tor is being assembled in the town of Shevchenko on
the Mangyshlak Peninsula, on the Ea ern coast of the Caspian Sea, An atomic power
station will be commissioned in two..y ars in the area where major oil deposits were
The eommereial fast-neutron atomic reacto ill be the first ever built in the world.
This is the type of reactor which reproduce more nuclea.i fuel than it burns.
Shevchenko, a large industrial center, is us.in~ only desal::.rc ced sea water. Its de