OFFICIAL USE ONL J -7Health and Welfare, which is the cognizant agency in Japan, is currently preparing a proposal and there may be a meeting between the principals within a year. The AEC hope is that the level of funding in U.S. dollars would stabilize and that the Japanese side would pick up the increases caused by inflationary pressures in Japan. Dr. Kirby-Smith described the status of the program in stable isotopes. A new plant is being constructed at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with the help of the Division of Military Application. Iso- topes of sulfur will be produced at the Mound Laboratory and calcium is currently being produced at Mound under support of the Division of Research. Nitrogen isotopes are currently being separated on a column in Los Alamos. Dr. Kirby-Smith also discussed the status of clinical tests with C°~. Two patients have received C°~-labeled glucose to measure glucose tolerance. breath. The method utilized is to measure c13-jabeled C05 in There are plans afoot to use cl3-jiabeled lactose to screen patients for lactase deficiencies. Currently, the University of California at Davis and the Tennessee Valley Authority are using ni4 in environmental studies. The Department of Agriculture has also expressed a strong interest in using N Dr. Robert Wood reported on the current status of the Bevalac at the Berkeley Laboratory. Calculations indicate that once the machine is operative it should be possible to obtain modest fluences of stripped iron nuclei. Money for the modification of the Bevatron and the Hilac to produce the Bevalac is in the fiacal 1973 budget but it will take at least a year to make the modification. Dr. Wood also reported on the status of the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF). Money is in the fiscal 1973 budget to complete the biomedical facility at LAMPF. The Cancer Institute has approved an application from the University of New Mexico for preclinical studies with negative pions and the National Science Foundation has approved a proposal from Oak Ridge to provide dosimetry support. beam should be available by the Summer of 1973, A usable pion Mr. J. Bewick reported on the status of the reactor accident study. The study is being undertaken to consider various facets of reactor risks. The hope is to produce a new document evaluating the consequences of reactor accidents which would replace WASH-740 which was an earlier study of the consequences of a maximum credible accident. Mr. Bewick indicated that the approach will be to use realistic rather than extreme estimates of both risks and consequences of accidents. Mr. Pennington from the newly created Division of Environmental Affairs discussed in some detail the functions of this new division. Briefly, the Division is concerned with environmental impact statements as related to various Commission activities. At this point the Committee recessed for the day. The sessions on September 9 will be held at the AEC "H" Street Office. OFFICIAL USE ONLY