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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.
R. R. Weynants, S. Jachmich, M. Van Schoor
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 2 | February 2005 | Pages 202-208
Technical Paper | TEXTOR: Radiation Cooling and Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A700
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The application in TEXTOR of an externally controlled radial electric field Er, imposed by means of an electrode, has allowed to ascertain many aspects of the physics of the creation of Er and of its effect on radial transport. Radial conductivity was shown to depend on parallel viscosity with the latter's nonlinear response to Er providing the basic ingredient for Er bifurcation, typical for L- to H-mode transitions. Simultaneous time and space resolved measurements of Er and of the plasma flows in the edge by means of a newly developed inclined Mach probe have allowed to further substantiate the role of parallel viscosity and of neutral collisions in the damping of rotation. The causal role of grad Er in bringing about the transport changes has been proven by showing that the field shear is spatially correlated with and temporally leads the density gradient, as well as by comparison with theoretical modeling.