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  Author: Andreyev, Vasiliy,
  spondent (interviewer)
  Title:
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  Primary source: Moskovskiy komsomol-
  ets, March 6, 1983, No. 55 (13625),
  p. 4) cols. 8-9
  Abstract: The article is an inter-
  view with B. Somov, the head of the
  solar plasma study group under the
  USSR Academy of Sciences' Astronomical
  Council and a senior science associate
  of the academy's Physics Institute
  imeni Lebedev (FIAN). Somov is iden-
  tified as a member of a group of phy-
  sicists who were awarded the 1982 USSR
  State Prize for a' cycle of works en-
  titled "Dynamics of Current Layers and
  Solar Activity". Commenting on its
  nature and significance, Somov says
  the work provides a theoretical sub-
  stantiation of the chain of processes
  occurring in solar plasma, from the
  formation of sunspots and active re-
  gions to the accumulation and libera-
  tion of energy in the form of flares
  in the sun's atmosphere. These phe-
  nomena were studied by various methods,
  including analytical and modeling
  methods. Experiments conducted with
  equipment developed at the USSR Aca-
  demy of Sciences' Institute of Space
  Research, the Siberian Institute of
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  by Somov's group.
       Somov goes on to mention possible
  areas of application of the findings
  of the work. They include space
  flight and controlled thermonuclear
  fusion. The work is said to provide
  a good theoretical basis for develop-
  ing improved methods for forecasting
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  solar flares and, consequently, radia-
  tion danger to spacecraft and their
  crews, for example. Academician Boris
  Kadomtsev is said to believe that both
  solar flares and the phenomenon of
  destructive instability of plasma in
  tokamak reactors may sometimes have

  the same underlying mechanism. Further
  study of the operation of this mechan-
  ism may permit the development of new
  elementary-particle accelerator sys-
  tems of very high power.
  Title: TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDIES OF
  EARTH FROM SPACE DESCRIBED 001,
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  Primary source: Ekonomicheskaya gaz-
  eta, March 1983, No. 12, p. 2, cols.
  1-5
  Abstract: The article is a survey of
  the scope of studies of the Earth from
  space for economic purposes. The sur-
  vey was compiled by the department on
  problems of the atmosphere and the
  oceans of the USSR State Committee for
  Science and Technology. Estimates re-
  portedly indicate than an economic ef-
  fect of 500 to 600 million rubles is
  yielded annually from the use of data
  obtained from space in the interests
  of various branches of the economy.
       A section of the article is devoted
  to the technology of studies of the
  Earth from space. It identifies two
  Isubsystems' for this -- photographic
  and operational. The photographic sub-
  system is said to be intended for the
  study of processes that take place
  slowly, and of stable formations cn
  the Earth's surface. Special photo-
  graphic equipment with high resolving
  power and geometric imaging precision
  is carried on various types of space-
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