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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.
P.O. Biney, S. Lomperski, M.L. Corradini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1355-1361
Result of Large Experiment and Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29531
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A review and discussion of the conditions leading to liquid metal ignition including experimental determination of an ignition envelope for liquid lithium are presented. A simple lumped model is used to investigate the necessary conditions (liquid metal and water temperatures) for liquid metal ignition to be imminent. Both the experimental and model results indicate that as the liquid metal temperature is increased, the water temperature required for interaction to proceed to a vapor phase reaction decreases. A rate equation for the reaction of lithium-lead alloy (Li17Pb83) is determined using a mass transport reaction model. The results indicate that the reaction of this lithium-lead alloy with water can be represented by a parabolic rate law.
