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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.
M. Nakamichi, J. H. Kim
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 66 | Number 1 | July-August 2014 | Pages 157-162
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-745
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Advanced neutron multipliers with low swelling and high stability at high temperatures are desired for the pebble bed blankets of demonstration fusion power (DEMO) reactors. Beryllium intermetallic compounds (beryllides) such as Be12Ti are the most promising material for this purpose. To fabricate the beryllide pebbles, a new granulation process has been established that combines a plasma sintering method for beryllide synthesis and a rotating electrode method using a plasma-sintered electrode for granulation. In trial granulation examinations, prototypic beryllide pebbles 1 mm in diameter were successfully fabricated. This study describes the results of a crush test and the characterization of the oxidation properties of the prototypic beryllide pebbles compared with those of Be pebbles. The crush test revealed that the prototypic beryllide pebble was more brittle than a Be pebble, and its crush load is one-third that of a Be pebble. The oxidation experiment showed that the weight gain ratios of the prototypic beryllide pebbles were significantly smaller than those of pure Be pebbles. The results confirmed that the prototypic beryllide pebbles have better oxidation resistance than pure Be pebbles.