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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.
Tanmoy Das, R. V. Kolekar, R. K. Gopalakrishnan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 207 | Number 4 | April 2021 | Pages 596-603
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1792754
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The detection and measurement of transuranic activity in ambient air by counting alpha particles is confounded due to the presence of short-lived alpha-emitting isotopes due to radon and thoron. This paper describes an algorithm intended for use in a gross alpha-based continuous air monitor. The algorithm is capable of generating the variation of gross alpha count rate with time from air filter samples using in situ–measured radon progeny data. The required input of atom concentration can be obtained from a simple experimental technique, which is discussed here.