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Remembering ANS member Gil Brown
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The nuclear community is mourning the loss of Gilbert Brown, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 77 following a battle with cancer.
Brown, an American Nuclear Society Fellow and an ANS member for nearly 50 years, joined the faculty at Lowell Technological Institute—now the University of Massachusetts–Lowell—in 1973 and remained there for the rest of his career. He eventually became director of the UMass Lowell nuclear engineering program. After his retirement, he remained an emeritus professor at the university.
Sukesh Aghara, chair of the Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization, noted in an email to NEDHO members and others that “Gil was a relentless advocate for nuclear energy and a deeply respected member of our professional community. He was also a kind and generous friend—and one of the reasons I ended up at UMass Lowell. He served the university with great dedication. . . . Within NEDHO, Gil was a steady presence and served for many years as our treasurer. His contributions to nuclear engineering education and to this community will be dearly missed.”
F. Andritsos, M. Zucchetti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 2046-2050
Safety, Recycling, and Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30022
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The thermal transient in ITER, following a total LOCA accident, has been studied by means of a combined neutronic-thermal model. A complete (inboard and outboard) sector of the machine has been modelled. It turns out that, at short term, the transient is dominated by the redistribution of the high initial temperature of the plasma facing components. At medium term, the intense afterheat generation dominates the transient. The cold components act as a heat sink, and the process remains adiabatic for all practical purposes. At long term, weak afterheat generation and heat dissipation towards the environment dominate, and a temperature peak is found only several weeks after the accident. The temperatures that are obtained do not affect in any way the structural integrity or the containment of ITER.
