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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.
Aarti Sharma, M. B. Saddi, B. Singh, B. S. Sandhu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 148 | Number 3 | November 2004 | Pages 445-452
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE04-A2470
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The collision integral cross sections are obtained and computed for several experimentally realizable cases to understand the various features of the higher-order process known as double photon Compton scattering. The computational work carried out using the Mathematica software package generally corresponds to three different incident gamma photon energies of 137Cs (661.65 keV), 65Zn (1.12 MeV), and that from the radiative capture of 19F (6.14 MeV). The characteristic features revealed a need to be investigated experimentally to check for their support to the currently acceptable theory of this quantum electrodynamics process. An experimental technique has been suggested for the measurement of these collision integral cross sections.
