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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
M. Ghate, A. Kumar, P. Charkhawala, N. Chauhan, S. Pradhan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 2 | March-April 2014 | Pages 255-261
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-652
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The effects of various fabrication processes, such as compaction and swaging, during the fabrication of a cable-in-conduit conductor on the mechanical and metallurgical properties of jacket material (SS316LN) are discussed in this paper. Microstructure analysis of various samples is carried out, and the change in microstructures has been studied using scanning electron microscopy image analysis. The variation in hardness for the jacket material is also tested after swaging and compaction operations. The jacket samples are tested for their tensile strength, reduction in area, elongation, and impact strength as per applicable American Society for Testing and Materials standards. The ultimate tensile strength (UTS) is observed to be decreased for a sample compacted to 733 MPa when compared to virgin samples. On the contrary, the UTS increased significantly up to 1027 MPa in swaged samples. There is no linear relationship between tensile strength of SS316LN after cold working operations. The effect of thermal shock on the mechanical and metallurgical properties of the jacket material is also investigated.