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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.
K. Takahashi, T. Kaneko, R. Hatakeyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 95-97
Heating | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963572
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The damping mechanism of left-hand circularly polarized wave (L wave) near the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) point, which has been considered not to be theoretically related to ECR, is investigated. The L wave and the right-hand circularly polarized wave (R wave) can be decomposed from the observed interferometric wave pattern, and it is found that not only the R wave but also the L wave is absorbed and damped in the ECR region. This damping of the L wave can be interpreted by the polarization reversal between the L and R waves. Furthermore, the polarization reversal from the L wave into the R wave is found to be enhanced in the lower electron temperature.