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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.
Shigefumi Okada, Fuji Kodera, Katsuhisa Kitano, Michiaki Inomoto, Satoru Yoshimura, Mamoru Okubo, Satoshi Sugimoto, Shoichi Ohi, Seichi Goto
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 295-298
Field Reversed Configuration and Neutron Sources | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A11963618
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Plasmas with field reversed configuration (FRC) are confined in open systems and have extremely high beta value of about 100% and they are one of candidates for an attractive reactor. But, in many cases they are produced in theta pinch apparatus and accessibility of additional heating facilities is poor. In order to solve this problem and to realize density appropriate for neutral beam injection, technology of translation is useful. By the translation, an FRC plasma is ejected out from theta pinch formation region and is translocated into a confinement region. With this translation, experiments related to sustain and control the FRC plasma become to be accomplished. Actually, axial magnetic compression, neutral beam heating and low frequency RF wave heating experiments are carried out on the FRC Injection Experiment (FIX) apparatus.