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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1420-1423
Safety and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963147
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This paper presents a review of fire protection operating experiences from selected magnetic fusion experiments and other facilities to support design decisions, safety analysis, and risk assessment work for future fusion experiments. Quantitative estimates of fire protection system failure rates and fire accident initiating event frequencies are presented. Safety concerns of spurious actuation and water leakage are discussed for fire suppression systems. This information should be useful to fusion system designers and safety analysts, such as the team working on the design of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
