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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. Pacella, G. Pizzicaroli, D. Mazon, P. Malard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 57 | Number 2 | February 2010 | Pages 142-151
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST10-A9368
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In this paper we propose a soft-X-ray method to characterize dust accumulation or layer formation on a given substrate. The method determines the differential absorption based on the X-ray lines emitted from the substrate by fluorescence as a result of film or powders deposited on the substrate surface. We have chosen to use molybdenum as the material for the substrate because it is used in present-day tokamaks and it is being considered as material for the first mirror. It also offers the advantage of having two strong lines, well separated in energy: the L-shell emissions centered at [approximately]2.3 keV and the K lines at [approximately]17.4 keV. The transparency of the layer can be then measured at 2.3 keV, provided the K line is unaffected. The feasibility of the proposed method was clearly demonstrated in laboratory experiments, providing estimations of the thicknesses that can be detected, for a number of relevant elements for fusion devices (Be, C, Fe, and W).