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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.
T. Hayashi, S. Konishi, M. Yamada, Y. Matsuda, M. Inoue, T. Nakamura, T, Takanaga, Y. Naruse, K. Okuyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1663-1667
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-A29580
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A large oil-free reciprocating pump was developed for high level tritium service. The pump is a water-cooled, single acting, four stage vertical piston vacuum pump. The characteristics of the pump were measured with H2, D2, He and N2 gases. Pumping speeds were approximately 180 M3/hr for these gases and almost constant above 10 torr of suction pressure., while it drastically dropped in the lower pressure region. The pump combination with a magnetic levitated turbomolecular pump worked well with N2, however He, D2 and H2 could not be pumped well due to poor matching of the characteristics of these pumps.