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Remembering Joseph M. Hendrie
Joseph M. Hendrie
To those of us who knew Joe, even prior to his appointment as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it is an understatement to say that he was a larger-than-life member of the nuclear science and technology enterprise. He was best known to the broader community for two major accomplishments: the design and construction of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the creation of the standard review plan (SRP) for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
In addition to the products of these endeavors becoming major fundaments to their respective communities, they were uniquely Joe. The safety analysis report for the HFBR was written essentially single-handedly by him. This was true of the SRP as well, which became the key safety review document for the NRC as it performed safety reviews for the growing number of power reactor applications in the United States. His deep technical knowledge of nuclear engineering and his extraordinary management skills made this possible.
S. Ohdachi, F. Watanabe, S. Yamamoto, K. Toi, C. Suzuki, K. Ida, S. Muto, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 418-425
Chapter 8. Diagnostics | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10827
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Several types of diagnostic system for soft X-ray radiation (SXR) have been developed and installed on the Large Helical Device (LHD). Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activities are studied by the fluctuation component of SXR, and the electron temperature is measured from the spectrum of the SXR. PIN photodiode arrays are installed at three poloidal cross sections to study the equilibrium and fluctuations. The spatial resolution of an array is a few centimeters, and its frequency response is up to [approximately]300 kHz. Absolute extreme ultraviolet diode arrays are also used for lower-energy radiation, and edge MHD instabilities are thereby studied. There are tangentially viewing two-dimensional soft X-ray camera systems by which more detailed spatial structure can be studied. Radial profile of X-ray spectrum is measured by X-ray pulse height analyzer systems.