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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
Alan L. Hoffman, Richard D. Milroy, John T. Slough, Loren C. Steinhauer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 9 | Number 1 | January 1986 | Pages 48-57
Techical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24700
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Field-reversed configurations are compact toroids confined solely by poloidal fields. Recent experiments and numerical calculations have demonstrated that they can be formed infield-reversed theta pinches on time scales longer than the radial Alfvén time. This considerably eases the technological requirements for large devices, and permits reasonable formation schemes to be developed for future experiments. Scaling laws are developed for both flux trapping and heating effectiveness as a function of the formation time scale and poloidal flux level.
