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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.
J.M. Miller, S.R. Bokwa, D.S. Macdonald, R.A. Verrall
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 996-999
Blanket Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29472
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Tritium release from 1.5 mm diameter Li2ZrO3 spheres has been examined in post-irradiation annealing tests, to support the Canadian sphere-pac breeder-blanket concept. Rapid tritium release was observed over the complete temperature range studied, 573–723 K. The tritium was recovered primarily in the tritiated water (HTO) form, except when He-1% H2 sweep gas was used and the temperature was ≥673 K. Hydrogen added to the sweep gas increased the release rate. The features of the tritium release curves from the on-line ionization chamber indicate some unexplained tritium release behaviour, not previously seen with LiA1O2 or Li2O.