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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.
J. C. Guyot, G. H. Miley, J. T. Verdeyen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 48 | Number 4 | August 1972 | Pages 373-386
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE72-A22505
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The transport of heavy charged particles produced by the 10B (n,α) nuclear reaction is predicted using a mean-range straight-flight model. The slowing down of these particles in a gas adjacent to the coating where they are born is described in terms of their flux energy spectrum, scalar flux, average energy, and energy-loss rate. These results are used in a plasma kinetics model which is compared to measurements of metastable excited state densities in helium and neon plasmas created by the heavy charged particles. The space-dependent fast primary electron (δ ray) energy spectrum produced by the heavy charged particles in helium is calculated, as well as the total number of fast primary electrons and their average kinetic energy.
