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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.
J.C. Buvat - C. Latge, X. Joulia - G.P. Pautrot
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 954-959
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29874
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The simulation of the units for hydrogen isotope separation by cryogenic distillation involves very particular characteristics from both the modelling and the numerical points of view. Because tritium is radioactive, the distillations have to be simulated using a model of a reactive column. The presence of tritium traces, high purity products and repeated recycling necessitate the use of advanced numerical methods and convergence criteria that can ensure a very high degree of calculational accuracy. A reactive column model was integrated into the ProSim simulator for the conceptual design of this type of unit through parametric and structural optimization. The simulation results of the Laue-Langevin Institutes' tritium extraction plant are presented here.