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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.
Ralf Wittmaack
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 194-212
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3268
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To reduce the radiological consequences of postulated severe accidents, the design of future European nuclear reactors includes measures to avoid basemat penetration in case of a core meltdown. The considered retention schemes include a temporary retention of the debris in the reactor pit followed by the spreading of the accumulated molten corium with subsequent flooding and cooling.To contribute to the verification of such concepts, numerical simulations of the spreading process were performed with the CORFLOW code. These are based on an extensive verification and validation effort, i.e., the code has also been applied successfully to several flow, heat transfer, and phase transition problems of water, glycerol, cerrotru- (low-melting Bi-Sn alloy), and thermite- and corium-melts.Physical and numerical methods are described as well as code applications to analytical solutions, spreading experiments, and reactor corium-spreading processes.