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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Chun-Tian Liang, Chong-Hai Cai
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 157 | Number 2 | October 2007 | Pages 159-184
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2720
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Based on the existing experimental data and some successful nuclear models that account for the mechanisms of nuclear reaction and details of nuclear structure, we calculate a set of nuclear reaction data for p + 58,60,61,62,64Ni from threshold energy to 200 MeV, which includes different kinds of reaction cross sections, elastic scattering angular distributions, energy spectra, and the double-differential cross sections of six outgoing light particles. On the whole, the theoretical results are in good accordance with the corresponding experimental data, and some improvements are achieved in comparison with the evaluation data of the ENDF/B6 file.