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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.
Katsuya Shimizu, Shinji Ebara, Hidetoshi Hashizume
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 528-532
Blanket Design and Experiments | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12436
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Flibe blanket, which uses molten salt Flibe as coolant and tritium breeder, is considered as one of the candidates of advanced liquid blanket for fusion reactors. Although Flibe has low heat transfer performance which comes from high Pr, sufficient heat removal can be achievable by using sphere-packed pipe (SPP) as heat transfer promoter.In this study, heat transfer correlations of SPP which can be available for high Pr fluids are derived from experimental analysis inserting various size and materials of spheres into the pipe. Further, heat transfer performance in a rectangular channel is simulated by using sphere-packed annular channel. Based on these results, heat transfer performance of Flibe blanket is evaluated and some design window with pressure drop of less than 1 MPa/m was confirmed.