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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.
Jorge Arpa, Jose Ramos, Juan R. Villar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 83 | Number 3 | December 1988 | Pages 334-343
Technical Paper | Fifth International Retran Meeting / Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34146
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Three applications of the RETRAN code at Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to enhance plant operational margin and support training simulators are presented. Two of the applications are intended to increase plant availability, one by reducing the frequency of unnecessary reactor trips on turbine trips during power ascension and the other by providing a simple relationship between electrical frequency and reactor coolant flow. This relationship is then used in selecting electrical load-shedding schemes. The third application is in the area of training simulators, where special RETRAN best-estimate analyses have been used as part of the acceptance testing program for the FPL simulators.