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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.
Zongwei Wang, Dangzhong Gao, Xiaojun Ma, Jie Meng
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 3 | November 2014 | Pages 432-437
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-808
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new technique based on a vertical scanning white-light interferometry is developed for measuring fuel pressure in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) multiple-shell polymer-microsphere targets. Nuclear fuel pressure is an essential parameter for estimating fusion efficiency in ICF experiments. This parameter is difficult to determine because of complicated target structures, short measurement time, relatively short optical path length changes, and expansion of the target after pressurization. To reduce the effects due to changes in diameter, a model is proposed to correct for the expansion at the radial orientation for multiple-shell polymer microspheres. The model is compared to a destructive method, and D2 fill pressure accuracy is confirmed within a 10% error of uncertainty.