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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 53 | Number 4 | May 2008 | Pages 1064-1079
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Joint European Torus (jet) | doi.org/10.13182/FST08-A1747
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Disruptions lead to the largest operational electromechanical loads on the vessel, its supports, and the in-vessel components. In addition, plasma-facing components can be exposed to very high thermal fluxes during the plasma thermal quench and to high-energy runaway electron beams. Therefore, disruptions represent one of the most demanding design load cases for this and the next generation of tokamaks, and they will need to be always strongly ameliorated or totally avoided in a commercial power plant. An overview of the observations and of the analytical and experimental work on disruptions carried out at JET both during the Joint Undertaking and under the European Fusion Development Agreement is presented.