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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.
Toshiki Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 143-146
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16891
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The mechanisms of toroidal field generation in translated field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are investigated analytically and numerically. Although the radial electric field in the moving frame together with a translated plasma can be transformed into the toroidal field in the stationary frame, it is negligible and 107 order smaller than the confinement poloidal field. It is found that the axial electric field due to the friction force is insufficient to produce the experimentally observed toroidal field. The Lorentz force acting on electrons translating in the mirror field is found to be accountable for toroidal field generation.
