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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.
Takeshi Muranaka, Nagayoshi Shima, Hisayoshi Sato
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 516-519
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Containment, Safety, and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A979
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To measure low tritium concentrations in environmental water samples, it is necessary to enrich them by electrolysis. We attempted electrolytic enrichment under the following conditions: (1) A standard water cell and sample water cell are connected in series and enriched using solid polymer electrolytic film (SPE film). (2) The apparatus constant obtained from the standard cell was used to estimate the tritium concentration in the sample water. (3) SPE film was replaced and the electrolytic cell was dismantled, cleaned and set up for every run.We repeated electrolytic enrichments for three different water samples with four replicates per sample. Results confirmed that this method is valid for the estimation of tritium concentrations in environmental water samples.