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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.
David N. Bixler, Steven A. Goldstein
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 646-651
Inertial Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29418
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The last five years have seen remarkable technical progress in the U.S. Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program, sufficient to motivate the Congress to call for two comprehensive program reviews within that period. Encouraged by this progress, the Department of Energy (DOE) is directing the Laboratory Microfusion Capability (LMC) Study with the objectives of defining the next major facility of the program (the Laboratory Microfusion Facility, or LMF), and elucidating the issues around LMF development. This presentation reviews the progress of the LMC Study and discusses several current planning activities.
