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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.
S. Vogler, M. J. Steindler, J. Jung
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 415-420
Materials Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22899
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A comparison has been made of the induced radioactivities in the first wall and structural materials of the breeder blanket in the high flux region for two different fusion reactor types. One system is the STARFIRE, a tokamak reactor with PCA, a modified stainless steel, as a first wall and a LiAlO2 breeder blanket; the other is a reactor based on the STARFIRE design with a vanadium alloy as the first wall and structural material, and circulating molten lithium as the breeder/coolant. The recycling or disposal of these structural materials is evaluated.
