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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.
J. D. Garrison, B. W. Roos
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 1 | January 1962 | Pages 115-134
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A25379
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Experimental measurements of fission product capture cross sections and statistical estimates of capture cross sections for energies at which no measurements have been made have yielded a set of group cross sections for primary and secondary fission products covering the complete range of energies of interest for reactor calculations. Capture cross sections and fission product yield measurements have been obtained from a comprehensive search covering published and some unpublished measurements available prior to May 1961. Unmeasured capture cross sections in the resonance region have been statistically estimated using average neutron strength functions, level spacings, and radiation widths. The general techniques of obtaining reliable nuclear parameters and estimates of cross sections are discussed in detail. The importance of capture in short-lived fission products is considered. The group cross sections obtained in this work have been combined and presented in a form useful for calculating fission product poisoning in reactors containing U233, U235, and/or Pu239. Results are analyzed and compared with previously published fission product studies.