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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.
V. Tkachenko, A. V. Ovcharov, M. B. Rozenkevich
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 2 | February 2017 | Pages 207-214
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST16-130
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Vapor phase catalytic exchange is an important part of many hydrogen isotope separation processes. Some industrial hydrogen isotope separation processes are performed in a wide deuterium concentration range. The performance of catalysts in hydrogen-water vapor exchange reaction in the upper deuterium concentration limit is poorly investigated. The paper presents results of an investigation of catalytic activity of three catalyst types at the upper and lower limits of the deuterium concentration range. All catalyst experimental rate constants in protium-deuterium exchange demonstrated a tendency to increase with the growth of deuterium concentration. Experimental rate constants of catalysts in protium-tritium and deuterium-tritium exchange were found to remain constant. In this work the authors propose a method to be used for catalyst performance evaluation to obtain catalyst performance data for liquid phase catalytic exchange process models.