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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.
Jörg Dreier, Gerassimos Analytis, Rakesh Chawla
Nuclear Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | January 1988 | Pages 93-106
Technical Paper | Advanced Light Water Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A35552
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The NEPTUN test facility at Würenlingen, Switzerland, has been modified to enable light water high conversion reactor (LWHCR) representative reflooding and boiloff experiments to be carried out. Results from a first series of forced feed reflooding tests, simulating cold-leg injection, are presented for a range of values of the flooding rate, rod power, and initial rod temperature parameters. Rewetting of the LWHCR fuel bundle simulator was found to be possible in each case. Analysis of the NEPTUN-III reflooding experiments with RELAP5/MOD2 yield discrepant results, and it has been shown, in the context of calculations of the boiloff experiments, that some LWHCR specific models and correlations need to be developed.
