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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.
Fujio Maekawa, Yoshimi Kasugai, Chikara Konno, Masayuki Wada, Yukio Oyama, Yujiro Ikeda, Robert Johnson, Edward T. Cheng, Mario Pillon, Isao Murata, Isao Kokooo, Daisuke Nakano, Akito Takahashi
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Neutronics Experiments and Analysis (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963747
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A fusion neutronics benchmark experiment on vanadium-alloy was conducted. Various nuclear quantities related to both neutrons and gamma-rays were measured. It was found through benchmark analyses that all the cross section data of mainly vanadium in recent nuclear data files still involved serious problems. Improvement of these data is strongly required. According to discussion on neutron KERMA factors, the major finding was that neutron KERMA factors based on ENDF/B-VI above 10 MeV were too large due to the larger 51V(n,n'p)50Ti cross section.
