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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.
Adolfas K. Gaigalas, Ann Chidester Van Orden, Baldwin Robertson, Thomas H. Mareci, Lori A. Lewis
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 1 | January 1989 | Pages 113-118
Technical Note | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34201
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The flow of water in porous materials has been visualized using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For flow in an initially dry bed, the water gives a large signal that can be detected directly. Flow in a wet bed is visualized indirectly by displacing the pure water with a dilute solution of paramagnetic ions. This solution does not give an MRI signal and so can be contrasted with pure water. Another use of MRI is to observe the absorption of water by a solid. The MRI technique is sensitive and can give accurate and quantitative results for flow with low Peclet number.