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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.
James W. Van Dam, Guo-yong Fu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 13 | Number 3 | March 1988 | Pages 423-427
Technical Paper | Alpha-Particle Workshop / Alpha Workshop | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25118
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Estimates based on the proposed parameters for a long-pulse ignition tokamak device, the Engineering Test Reactor, indicate that it is likely that alpha particles will resonantly destabilize high toroidal mode number magnetohydrodynamic ballooning modes, as well as low mode number global types of Alfvén modes, which could be problematic for loss of fusion power. Also, nonresonant enhancement of stability by energetic alpha particles, for the purpose of access into the high-beta second regime of stability, appears to be unlikely for such a device.
