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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.
S. Konishi, M. Inoue, T. Hayashi, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse, J. W. Barnes, J. L. Anderson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1595-1600
Material and Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29569
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The Tritium Process Laboratory (TPL) at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has developed a Fuel Cleanup System (FCU) which accepts simulated fusion reactor exhaust and produces pure hydrogen isotopes and tritium-free waste. The major components are; a palladium diffuser, a catalytic reactor, cold traps, a ceramic electrolysis cell, and zirconium-cobalt beds. In 1988, an integrated FCU process loop was installed in the TPL. A number of “hot” runs were performed to study the system characteristics and improve performance. Under the US-Japan collaboration program, the “JAERI Fuel Cleanup System” (JFCU) was designed and fabricated by JAERI/TPL for testing at the Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) in Los Alamos National Laboratory as a major subsystem of the simulated fusion fuel cycle. The JFCU was installed in the TSTA in early 1990.