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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.
Derek H. Lister, Gopala Venkateswaran, Norman Arbeau
Nuclear Technology | Volume 140 | Number 3 | December 2002 | Pages 288-302
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3340
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In water-cooled reactors measures to minimize the radiation fields due to the transport and deposition of 60Co are important to ensure low occupational doses of radiation. For example, it is now accepted practice to add zinc to boiling water reactor coolant to minimize 60Co transport and pickup by surfaces. This paper describes a study of the kinetics of 60Co deposition on Type 316 stainless steel in neutral, partially deoxygenated water at 563 K and 10.2 MPa with and without zinc traced with 65Zn. The effect of zinc addition on the corrosion rate of preoxidized stainless steel was also studied using relatively high concentrations of additive. General observations and a mathematical model of the corrosion rate provide insights into the possible mechanisms involved.