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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.
Christoph Börgers,Edward W. Larsen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 123 | Number 3 | July 1996 | Pages 343-357
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE96-A24198
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The Fermi pencil-beam approximation describes the broadening of a monoenergetic, nearly monodirectional particle beam in an optically thick system in which the mean scattering angle is small and large-angle scattering is negligible. This physical problem has applications in such diverse fields as astrophysics, materials science, electron microscopy, and radiation cancer therapy. The Fermi equation is derived two different ways: as an asymptotic limit of the Fokker-Planck equation for σtr → 0 and as an asymptotic limit of the linear Boltzmann equation for σtr→ 0 and σt → ∞. Some numerical results illustrating the Fermi approximation are also given.
