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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 3 | October 2011 | Pages 899-904
Tritium Storage | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12562
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To efficiently confine the gaseous deuterium and tritium, which are the important fuels in the development of fusion energies, China has developed a series of hydrogen resistant stainless steels, named as the HR series of stainless steels. The mechanisms of the interactions between tritium with the decayed helium-3 and these stainless steels were investigated by theoretical calculations, experimental observations or tests through gaseous tritium loading into the stainless steels and years of storage. Results showed that the China made HR stainless steels had good performance to resist hydrogen damage or hydrogen embrittlement. They are the ideal structure materials for tritium systems used in a fusion reactor like ITER. Nevertheless, tritium permeation at high temperatures are still high. Tritium permeation barriers with the aluminides on the surface of the components were successfully developed, which could greatly reduce tritium permeation flux down to 2~3 orders of magnitudes.