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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.
M. J. Gaeta, B. J. Merrill, D. A. Petti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 1025-1029
Tritium Technology, Safety, Environment, and Remote Maintenance | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40290
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A parameter study of the transient thermal response of the recent International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor design was performed for unmitigated loss of coolant accidents (LOCAs). Inboard component temperatures and hydrogen production levels remained low for an unmitigated blanket cooling system LOCA. Adding an unmitigated LOCA of the vacuum vessel cooling system to the blanket cooling system LOCA scenario results in much higher first wall temperatures and the production of flammable and, eventually, detonatable amounts of hydrogen in the plasma chamber.