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Hash Hashemian: Visionary leadership
As Dr. Hashem M. “Hash” Hashemian prepares to step into his term as President of the American Nuclear Society, he is clear that he wants to make the most of this unique moment.
A groundswell in public approval of nuclear is finding a home in growing governmental support that is backed by a tailwind of technological innovation. “Now is a good time to be in nuclear,” Hashemian said, as he explained the criticality of this moment and what he hoped to accomplish as president.
S. Kasai, K. Kamiya, K. Shinohara, H. Kawashima, H. Ogawa, K. Uehara, Y. Miura, F. Okano, S. Suzuki, K. Hoshino, K. Tsuzuki, M. Sato, K. Oasa, Y. Kusama, T. Yamauchi, Y. Nagashima, K. Ida, S. Hidekuma, T. Ido, Y. Hamada, A. Nishizawa, Y. Kawasumi, Y. Uesugi, S. Okajima, K. Kawahata, A. Ejiri, H. Amemiya, Y. Sadamoto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 225-240
Technical Paper | JFT-2M Tokamak | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1097
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The diagnostic system of JFT-2M has consisted of about 30 individual diagnostic instruments, which were used to study plasma production, control, equilibrium, stability, confinement, plasma heating by neutral beam injection and/or by radio-frequency (rf) (lower hybrid, ion cyclotron resonance frequency, electron cyclotron heating), and current drive by rf. In these instruments, the motional Stark effect polarimeter, charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy, heavy ion beam probe, time-of-flight neutral particle analyzer, etc., have helped in further understanding the improved mechanism of confinement such as H-mode and high-recycling-steady H-mode, and operational regimes of these modes. An infrared television camera system and a lost ion probe have played a very important role in investigating the heat load on the walls due to ripple lost particles and escaping ions from the core plasma region, respectively.