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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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.
Tatiana Khromyleva, Ivan Bondarenko, Alexander Gurbich, Vladimir Ketlerov, Vitaly Khryachkov, Pavel Prusachenko
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 191 | Number 3 | September 2018 | Pages 282-290
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1463746
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A novel spectrometer was developed and used to measure the cross section for the (n, α) reaction at the Institute for Physics and Power Engineering. Direct measurements of the alpha particles yielded from isotopically enriched solid targets of 50Cr, 52Cr, and 53Cr; 54Fe and 57Fe; 60Ni; 64Zn; and 47Ti were carried out in the neutron energy range from 4.0 to 7.2 MeV. For some of the isotopes, the (n, α) reaction cross sections for neutron energies below 14 MeV were measured for the first time. The result of the comparison of new experimental data with the evaluated data from ENDF/B-VII, JENDL-4.0, JEFF-3.2, ROSFOND-2010, and BROND-3 libraries and with the experimental data of other authors is presented.