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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.
B. A. Carreras, N. Dominguez, V. E. Lynch, N. T. Besedin, I. M. Pankratov, A. A. Shishkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 1 | January 1993 | Pages 71-78
Technical Paper | Experimental Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30121
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A more accurate model of the helical coils has changed previous stability results, which were obtained with a model that used only three filaments for each half-coil. With the improved model, Mercier stability is obtained for parabolic pressure profiles at peak beta values of up to 3% for the standard configuration, which now has an average minor radius ā = 23.3 cm. For a configuration with a smaller plasma radius, ā = 15.2 cm, the maximum peak beta, 5.0%, is limited by equilibrium. The addition of a toroidal field reduces the rotational transform to <0.5. This configuration has access to the second stability regime for Mercier modes when narrow pressure profiles are used at low beta.