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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.
J. Kim, L. D. Stewart
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1717-1721
Plasma Heating, Impurity Control, and Fueling | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40008
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The angular intensity profile of a single beamlet is expressed as a sum of a main Gaussian and a bump-on-the-tail representing the optical aberration. Transmission of a total beam comprised of a large number of beamlets is then analytically derived. By an iterative matching of the calculated transmissions to the measured transmissions through at least two downstream openings, the parameters that describe the single beamlet angular profile are determined. Some of the neutral beam injectors employed for heating fusion plasmas are characterized by this modeling. Also presented is an improved algorithm for calculating the intensity distribution at a downstream plane.