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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. Barnes, W. Harbin, J. Anderson, J. Bartlit, T. Hayashi, H. Nakamura, M. Inoue, K. Hirata, K. Okuno, Y. Naruse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1984-1986
Material and Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30012
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The United States Department of Energy and the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) have installed a full-scale fuel cleanup system (JFCU) at the Los Alamos Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) for testing. A component in the JFCU, the Ceramic Electrolysis Cell (CEC), was observed to have an internal leak after approximately one year of intermittent tests. This paper describes the experience of removal, decontamination and disassembly of this full-scale component.
