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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 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1317-1322
Detritiation and Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12672
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The CAPER facility operated at the Tritium Laboratory Karlsruhe for the demonstration of the tokamak exhaust processing system comprises a PERMCAT reactor as final clean-up stage. CAPER has been upgraded to enable the production of highly tritiated water (HTW) to be detritiated with PERMCAT. A staged approach for HTW production in CAPER is ongoing, using currently a metal oxide reactor, and later a micro-channel catalytic reactor. The whole experimental plan using the current single-tube PERMCAT reactor shall cover the HTW processing at flow rates up to 10 mL/min, with HTW up to 1.4 MCi/kg (i.e. stoichiometric DTO). The staged approach and corresponding CAPER modifications are described. The first experimental results obtained using metal oxide reactor are reported and discussed.