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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
B. T. Kelly
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 96-103
Technical Paper | Materials engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29099
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The available data on the effects of fast neutron irradiation on the properties of fine-grain (POCO) graphites at temperatures between 950 and 1400°C are collected. New results are presented for a number of fine-grain graphites irradiated at 600°C. The results are discussed in terms of the useful lifetimes of the graphite as a function of temperature and the way this is related to crystallite behavior.
