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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.
D. J. Pellarin, J. L. Jarriel
Nuclear Technology | Volume 42 | Number 2 | February 1979 | Pages 150-154
Technical Paper | Thorium Fuel Cycle in a Breeder Economy / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A32145
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Subcritical multiplication constants have been derived from pulsed-neutron measurements for 2×3 square pitch and hexagonal arrays of massive hollow cylinders of uranium-aluminum alloy in H2O. The cylinders were 22.02-cm-o.d., 14.80-cm-i.d. bare 235U-Al alloy castings of 30.50 wt% uranium (76.97% 235U) in aluminum. These measurements extend previous benchmark experiments on similar castings with lower enrichments. KENO-IV, a multigroup Monte Carlo criticality code (with Hansen-Roach cross sections), calculates the subcritical multiplication constants for these lattices over the reactivity range 0.77 < keff < 0.98, with an average conservative bias of ∼0.005 in keff.
