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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.
Ph. Aussourd
Nuclear Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | April 1978 | Pages 97-103
Technical Paper | Low-Temperature Nuclear Heat / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A16161
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Electricité de France (EdF), the French National Electric Power Company, has a large nuclear program under construction. Every possibility of providing heat from French pressurized water reactor nuclear plants has been examined. Due to the characteristics of heat needs in France, the necessity of maintaining the standardization of nuclear units as much as possible, and the possibility of tapping off steam from steam generators within 10% of the total thermal power of the reactors without modifying the constraints of operational control, EdF has decided to propose to eventual heat customers a technical solution based on tapping off heat from steam generators at the top of the steam cycle.