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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.
H. Sugai, Z. Miao, M. Kato, H. Kudo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 818-820
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29849
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The activation energy of tritium diffusion in intermetallic 6LiAl crystals (103.8±9.5 kJ/mol) determined in the temperature range from 699 to 886 K was fairly large compared with that of hydrogen diffusion in Al (40–60 kJ/mol) in which hydrogen would diffuse in an interstitial-diffusion mechanism. The tritium diffusion in 6LiAl crystals was explained by a vacancy-diffusion mechanism, roles of vacancies and anti-structure atoms being considered.
