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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.
B. Zhao, B. H. Mills, S. I. Abdel-Khalik, M. Yoda
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 561-565
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-122
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Three-dimensional numerical simulations of a test section modeling a single module of the helium-cooled modular divertor with multiple jets (HEMJ) design were performed to complement experimental studies at nearly prototypical conditions as part of the joint US-Japan effort on plasma-facing components evaluation by tritium plasma, heat, and neutron irradiation experiments (PHENIX). The Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model gave numerical predictions of the cooled surface temperature that were in good agreement with experimental estimates from a new helium loop. The simulations showed that spatial variations in incident heat flux, at least in the form of a Gaussian function, had a negligible effect on cooled surface temperatures.
Our initial results indicate that the numerical predictions of the thermal performance of a single HEMJ module are in reasonable agreement with the experimental studies. The simulations do, however, predict slightly higher heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) than the experimental studies, presumably because they do not account for thermal losses. The HTC appears to be essentially independent of incident heat flux, suggesting that the model can be used to investigate parameters that cannot be determined experimentally in many cases, such as the local HTC and temperature distributions within the divertor pressure boundary, at prototypical conditions.