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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.
Robert R. Peterson, Gregory A. Moses, Joseph J. MacFarlane, Ping Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 780-784
National Ignition Facility | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40249
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Simulations of the breakup of the NIF targets have been performed. The x-ray and debris emission are predicted and compared with generic results that were commonly used before the recent declassification. These simulations are one-dimensional, while the target is two-dimensional. The computational models are discussed in some detail, and the problems of one-dimensional simulations are acknowledged.