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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.
K. P. Gopinathan Nair, T. K. Umesh, Ramakrishna Gowda
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 117 | Number 4 | August 1994 | Pages 251-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A21502
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Total attenuation cross sections for several sugars are measured for 661.6-, 1173-, and 1332.5-keV photons in a narrow beam geometry setup, by using a hyperpure germanium detector. These values are compared with the values calculated by using the mixture rule based on Hubbell’s data for the individual elements and are found to be in good agreement. Based on the measured values for different sugars, a set of mean mass attenuation coefficients for sugars is given for the energies of interest.
