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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.
V. V. Postupaev et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 307-309
doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11644
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The paper presents experimental data on plasma heating in a new regime of GOL-3 operation. Unlike previous experiments, the new regime features significant growth of energy of electrons in a relativistic electron beam during the beam pulse.The new dynamics of beam energy during the shot changes dynamics of plasma heating. A pronounced feature of previous GOL-3 experiments on plasma heating in the corrugated magnetic field was early transition to the plasma cooling stage, which in some regimes occurred much earlier than the beam injection stopped. In the gradual-energy-growth regime, plasma heating continues for a longer period until the beam power decreases significantly. Some other features will also be discussed.Experiments in the new regime allow us to partially verify feasibility of plasma heating with the electron beam at lowered beam parameters. This is important for the next planned step in GOL-3 program.