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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.
Shinya Chiba, Saburo Toda, Kazuhisa Yuki, Akio Sagara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 779-783
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963333
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A molten salt FLiBe is proposed to be one of candidate materials for coolant and breeder in a fusion blanket. However, it is high Pr-number fluid with large viscosity. Therefore, applying it as the coolant for high surface heat flux conditions, we have to develop a new methods to enhance heat transfer of molten FLiBe flowing in a channel by an adequate active promoters. Through the present study of numerical analysis, it is clarified that an averaged Nusselt number of molten FLiBe laminar flow in a channel filled with the porous medium is higher than that in a normal smooth pipe. The larger enhancemnet can be increased with increasing flow velocity, however, the averaged Nu number shows a maximum value because the heat transfer in the radial direction perpendicular to the flow axis becomes relatively reduced with the increase of the flow velocity.