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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.
J. M. Mintz, D. K. Spencer, D. M. Holck
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1220-1223
Environmental and Organically Bound Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12650
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Since 2001, LLNL has supported a program to recover and recycle tritium from exit signs, telephone dials, gun sights and other military and commercial tritium-powered illumination devices. In addition to permitting tritium reuse, this effort also provides an environmentally safe disposal option. Recently, the startup of the Tritium Grinder System (TGS) in the LLNL Tritium Facility has added significantly to the program's capability and capacity. Actual results, including the collected gas chemical composition and unit processing rate are presented along with a summary of the design features, operating procedures and safety controls.
