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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.
Yoshihiro Yamane, Minoru Shinkawa, Kojiro Nishina
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 72 | Number 2 | November 1979 | Pages 244-255
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE79-A19469
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For single-core reflected neutronic systems, generalized neutron generation time is derived and given physical interpretations in terms of importance. A system kinetic equation containing the moderator region response function previously introduced is reduced by a slow-variation approximation to the form of a conventional one-point kinetic equation, in which a parameter can be identified as generalized neutron generation time by analogy with a bare system. In such a mathematical expression for the parameter, one can further identify the amount of increase due to reflection over the bare system generation time. This amount is found to be the reflection time multiplied by the number of migrations that neutrons undergo between reflector and core in one generation. The theoretical generation time of the SHE assembly, a thermal-energy, graphite-moderated critical assembly, calculated by such a formulation with cylindrical geometry, agreed well with that from pulsed neutron experiments.