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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.
D. L. Luo, Y. F. Xiong, J. F. Song, G. Q. Huang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 156-158
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Science and Technology - Detritiation, Purification, and Isotope Separation | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A902
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A Concept design for large-scale hydrogen ISS based on a single Pd alloy membrane separator cascade has been presented. Separators to investigate the feasibility of the Pd membrane separator cascade concept have been designed and the separation performance of the separators is given. Results show that the separation factors, which are between 1.4 and 1.8 at the operation temperature, are large enough for a practical separation system design. Estimation results indicate that a 2.0m2 Pd membrane is needed for a 20mol/h and 12 stages batch ISS, and an approximately 50m2 Pd membrane is needed for a 200mol/h and 26 stages ISS. It is clear that the separator cascade concept is both reasonable and practicable for large-scale hydrogen isotope separation.