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Hash Hashemianpresident@ans.org
From kindergarten classrooms to national security facilities, each event I attended during the opening weeks of the new year underscored one truth: The future of nuclear energy depends on the people we inspire, educate, and empower today.
I had a busy start to 2026, first speaking at the Nashville Energy and Mining Summit alongside Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association senior vice president Justin Maierhofer to explore the necessary synergies among policy, academic coursework, research, and industry expertise in accelerating American nuclear innovation. Drawing on experiences in high-level government relations and public affairs and decades of work in nuclear instrumentation advancements, we discussed Tennessee’s nuclear renaissance, workforce development, and policy frameworks that support emerging energy demands.
K. Saito, R. Kumazawa, T. Seki, H. Kasahara, M. Osakabe, M. Isobe, F. Shimpo, G. Nomura, T. Watari, S. Murakami, M. Sasao, T. Mutoh, LHD Experiment Group
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July-August 2010 | Pages 515-523
Chapter 10. Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency Heating | Special Issue on Large Helical Device (LHD) | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A10838
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Various ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) heating experiments have been conducted in the Large Helical Device (LHD) by changing the magnetic field strength and the wave frequency using hydrogen and helium. When the resonance layer of hydrogen was located in the peripheral region on the lower-magnetic field side, efficient electron heating, i.e., mode conversion heating, was realized. When the ion cyclotron resonance layer was located near the "saddle point" of magnetic field strength, where the gradient of the magnetic field strength is zero, hydrogen ions were efficiently heated by the minority ion heating. The second-harmonic ion cyclotron heating experiments were also conducted by decreasing the magnetic field strength, and the plasma was successfully sustained for 1 s. Ion tails were observed in the ion heating modes. High-energy ions were well confined by the inward-shifted magnetic configuration. The ion tail formed by the second-harmonic heating was enhanced by the injection of a perpendicular neutral beam.