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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.
J. L. Hemmerich, A. Dombra, C. Gordon, E. Groskopfs, A. Konstantellos
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 557-561
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Third Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 1-6, 1988) | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25192
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The Impurity Processing Loop (IPL) of the JET Active Gas Handling System is designed to recover tritium from impurities such as tritiated water and hydrocarbons present in the JET plasma exhaust. All impurities are fully oxidised in a catalytic recombiner, the tritiated water frozen in a cold trap and subsequently decomposed on hot uranium powder. Hydrogen isotopes set free in this reaction are scavenged from the helium carrier gas in a cold uranium bed. The modular design of the IPL permits implementation of advanced processing schemes (eg avoiding solid UO2 waste) in the future without major hardware modifications.