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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.
Wanjing Wang, Qiang Li, Sixiang Zhao, Shengping Chang, Yue Xu, Zhenmao Chen, Zhensheng Yuan, Yingli Shi, Sigui Qin, Lingjian Peng, Guohui Liu, Guang-Nan Luo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 125-130
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-772
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Recently, the EAST W/Cu divertor components, including the ITER-like monoblock W/Cu units and flat-type W/Cu units, have been developed by Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in collaboration with Advanced Technology and Materials Co., Ltd. (AT&M). To detect the bonding quality in these multiple layer geometry W/Cu plasma-facing components (PFCs) at each step of their manufacture, special nondestructive testing techniques have been researched and developed. For monoblock W/Cu PFCs, the bonding at both W-Cu and Cu-CuCrZr interfaces was qualified by spiral ultrasonic testing (UT) with a focus probe, which was inserted into the CuCrZr tube with a flexible driving tube. Artificial defects with defined size have been measured by UT and compared with the results of high heat flux testing (HHFT). The HHFT demonstrated that the monoblock W/Cu mock-up qualified by this UT has withstood 1000 cycles of heat load at 10 MW/m2. The bonding quality of flat-type W/Cu mock-ups has also been inspected by the usual water-gap UT. The results from HHFT at 5 MW/m2 demonstrated that the present UT was unreliable for the quality control of the flat-type W/Cu PFCs.