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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Hideo Kozima, Masayuki Ohta, Mitsutaka Fujii, Kunihito Arai, Hitoshi Kudoh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 86-90
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A183
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Experimental data showing generation of 4He from a Pd sheet-D2 gas system observed by E. Botta et al. are analyzed by the trapped neutron catalyzed fusion (TNCF) model. The proposed mechanism of 4He generation is not the direct d-d reaction but the reactions between the trapped neutron and a Pd isotope, n-46APd reactions, with a supplemental assumption, decrease of threshold energies for (n,) reactions of 46APd in solids. The arbitrary parameter nn, the density of the trapped neutron, of the model is determined to be ~1012 cm-3, which is consistent with values determined in analyses of data in various events in the cold fusion phenomenon.