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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.
John C. Wesley, Ronald D. Stambaugh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 473-479
Alternate and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963281
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Parameters and physics and technology performance of the Fusion Development Facility (FDF), a 13-MA volume neutron source and fusion materials and component test facility are described and plasma and nuclear technology development requirements summarized. The programmatic means by which the mostly not-yet-available ‘critical technologies’ need for FDF can be realized by 2015, when high-performance operation could first commence, are suggested. Given the timely availability of these critical ‘enabling technologies’, an iterative 15-year test and development program for attaining reactor-qualified materials and technologies then becomes possible.
