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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.
Guohui Zhang, Guoyou Tang, Jinxiang Chen, Zhaomin Shi, Guangzhi Liu, Xuemei Zhang, Zemin Chen, Yu. M. Gledenov, M. Sedysheva, G. Khuukhenkhuu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 134 | Number 3 | March 2000 | Pages 312-316
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2119
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A gridded ionization chamber was used to measure the differential cross sections for tritons from the 6Li(n,t)4He reaction at 3.67 and 4.42 MeV. Neutrons were produced via the D(d,n)3He reaction. The absolute neutron flux was determined through the 238U(n,f) and H(n,p) reactions. At 3.67 MeV the result is almost 90 deg symmetric, but it is obviously forward peaked at 4.42 MeV in the center-of-mass reference system.