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PR: American Nuclear Society welcomes Senate confirmation of Ted Garrish as the DOE’s nuclear energy secretary
Washington, D.C. — The American Nuclear Society (ANS) applauds the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Theodore “Ted” Garrish as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“On behalf of over 11,000 professionals in the fields of nuclear science and technology, the American Nuclear Society congratulates Mr. Garrish on being confirmed by the Senate to once again lead the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy,” said ANS President H.M. "Hash" Hashemian.
H. H. Hummel, Kalimullah, and P. Pizzica
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 59 | Number 4 | April 1976 | Pages 440-441
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE76-A26845
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Recalculation of sodium voiding ramp rates in a loss-of-flow accident for a model of a 4000-MW(e) oxide-fueled liquid-metal fast breeder reactor gave results much lower than those found previously by Bleiweis et al. Only a part of this difference could be ascribed to differences in the primary coolant loop model.
