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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.
Y. Harima, S. Tanaka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 90 | Number 2 | June 1985 | Pages 165-173
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A17674
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Exposure buildup factors for plane isotropic, point isotropic, and plane normal sources have been calculated using a discrete ordinates direct integration code, PALLAS-PL, SP-Br, in infinite and finite water shields in the 0.06- to 0.1-MeV range. The values of the attenuation kernel, Be-µr, are greater than unity at distances up to a few mean-free-paths in an infinite medium. The maximum value of Be-µr depends on the incident energy, and this effect reaches a maximum for a 0.08-MeV source. The implication that the dose rate with a shield is greater than without a shield should be noticed. Results of this study show, however, that the large degree of scattering in a low-z material, such as water, produces this effect. Buildup factors, energy spectra, and angular distributions were analyzed for three source geometries in the comparisons of scattered gamma-ray transport in infinite and finite water shields.