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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.
K. Kotoh, M. Tanaka, T. Tsuge, S. Moriyama, S. Takashima, Y. Asakura, T. Uda, T. Sugiyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 2 | August 2011 | Pages 771-775
Safety & Environment | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12478
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For the purpose of application to volume reduction of tritiated hydrogen as gaseous waste, we carried out an experimental series of pressure swing adsorption (PSA) using a column packed with synthetic zeolite 13X (SZ-13X) at 77.4 K, where a cyclic PSA process was operated enriching D2 in a H2-D2 mixture while isolating H2 from this mixture. The result demonstrates successive reduction of a volume of this mixture with successively separating purified hydrogen volumes. It is reported here that the operational efficiency of volume reduction in the PSA process using the SZ-13X column is higher than that in the same PSA process using the same column but packed with SZ-5A. The latter is already obtained in a previous work. Comprehensively, the experimental results suggest that the PSA process is applicable to the volumetric reduction for regulating the storage inventory in a tritium waste management system.