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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.
Donald L. Smith, Itacil C. Gomes, Robert C. Ward, Yujiro Ikeda, Yoshitomo Uno, Fujio Maekawa, Anatoly A. Filatenkov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1049-1052
Fusion Blanket and Shield Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963075
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Water is activated in a fusion environment by the 16O(n,p)16N reaction. In this work nuclear responses in the magnets, induced by gamma rays from the activated cooling water, for the current design of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), are calculated with a detailed Monte Carlo model of the chimney region through which the cooling pipes leave the machine. It is found that, despite a significant dose, the nuclear responses induced by these gamma-rays do not pose an obvious threat to the operation of the magnets.