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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.
C. A. Ordonez, R. Carrera, W. D. Booth, M. E. Oakes
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1750-1754
Impurity Control and Plasma-Facing Component | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29595
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A Monte Carlo program for simulating plasma ions incident on a surface with a floating potential is presented. This program is used for calculating sputtering, backscattering, and implantation values for deuterium plasma ions incident on a carbon surface. Sputtering, backscattering, and implantation by accelerated Maxwellian, monoenergetic, and Maxwellian ions are compared at the same average incident energy. Values for accelerated Maxwellian ions are found to be significantly different from values for monoenergetic and Maxwellian ions.
