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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.
Boris V. Kuteev, Vladimir Yu. Sergeev, Sergey M. Egorov, Vladimir G. Kapralov, Konstantin V. Khlopenkov, Igor V. Miroshnikov, Dmitriy V. Polyakov, Pavel V. Reznichenko, Peter T. Lang, Klaus P. Büchl, Paul Cierpka, Rudolf S. Lang, Shigeru Sudo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 938-944
Fusion Diagnostic and Neutronic Experiment and Analysis | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40275
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The paper contains recent results in the field of pellet diagnostics obtained on the T-10 and ASDEX-Upgrade tokamaks (collaboration between STU and IPP) and a proposal to inject high Z impurity pellets for control of the disruption and ramp-down phase in ITER.
