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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 65 | Number 2 | March-April 2014 | Pages 205-211
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In high heat flux components of neutral beam injector (NBI) systems, CuCrZr alloy is used as a heat sink material. In different national standards, chromium content varies from 0.4 to 1.5 wt%, and zirconium content varies from 0.03 to 0.25 wt%. Indian CuCrZr material was produced at the Non-Ferrous Materials Technology Development Centre and used for the NBI system of the Indian tokomak SST-1, which complied with these chemical composition ranges. The properties of the Indian CuCrZr material were in accordance with procurement specifications. CuCrZr ITER-grade (IG) specifications are as defined in “ITER Materials Properties Handbook” (MPH). The MPH recommends a narrower range of Cr and Zr contents. The reason for limiting the Cr content is that a high Cr content may result in the formation of coarse Cr precipitates, which affect the radiation resistance. Indian CuCrZr with ITER specifications has been produced in a large number (38) of heats and characterized for compositional, tensile, grain size, and weld properties. The properties are, in general, found to comply with those of ITER specifications. The material-processing and component-making steps have been determined, and prototypes of heat transfer elements have been made. Residual ion dump plates have been successfully deep drilled, and component welding trials are in progress. This paper discusses experiences in producing CuCrZr IG and making the elements.