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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 3 | April 2011 | Pages 440-468
Lecture | Fourth ITER International Summer School (IISS2010) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11689
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The ITER project is an important step toward fusion energy utilization for human beings. Fundamental understanding of physics is quite important, as well as understanding of tokamak systems and plasma control. In this lecture, given at the 4th ITER International Summer School, we give an introduction to tokamak research on fusion energy and ITER in light of the main theme of this school, plasma control, and we present some examples to illustrate the importance of physics by showing some physics elements underlying research toward steady-state operation of reactor-relevant tokamak plasmas.