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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.
Jiming Chen, Jiapu Qian
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1692-1695
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-A29585
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The corrosion behavior of several Fe-Ni-Cr alloys in static liquid lithium are reported in this paper. The alloys were 316SS, Ti-modified 316SS, HR-1, low activity HT-9, HT-9 and HT-7 steels. After exposure in lithium at 500°C for 963, 1295, 1707, 2115 and 2495 hours the weight changes of the corroded specimens were analyzed using a scanning electron microscope and electron probe. The results showed that big differences exist between the auste-nitic stainless steels and the ferritic steels. Besides, the effects of nitrogen content on the lithium corrosion behavior of the alloys are also given.
