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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.
K. P. Gopinathan Nair, T. K. Umesh, Ramakrishna Gowda
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 117 | Number 4 | August 1994 | Pages 251-253
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE94-A21502
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Total attenuation cross sections for several sugars are measured for 661.6-, 1173-, and 1332.5-keV photons in a narrow beam geometry setup, by using a hyperpure germanium detector. These values are compared with the values calculated by using the mixture rule based on Hubbell’s data for the individual elements and are found to be in good agreement. Based on the measured values for different sugars, a set of mean mass attenuation coefficients for sugars is given for the energies of interest.
