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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.
R. Bedogni, A. Esposito
Nuclear Technology | Volume 168 | Number 3 | December 2009 | Pages 615-619
Neutron Measurements | Special Issue on the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding and the 15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (PART 3) / Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A9278
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In the framework of the radiation protection monitoring around DANE, the high-energy factory of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (INFN-LNF), a characterization of the neutron field was performed. As a suitable neutron spectrometer, a specially designed Bonner sphere system, whose energy range was extended up to hundreds mega-electron-volts by means of three spheres equipped with copper or lead inserts, was employed. The response matrix of the system was derived with MCNPX and experimentally validated with reference neutron fields. The neutron spectrum has been unfolded with the FRUIT (FRascati Unfolding Interactive Tool) code, a new unfolding code developed at INFN-LNF for the needs of operational radiation protection. This paper presents the results of the measurements in the DANE complex, underlying the achievements of the new unfolding code. Moreover, the impact of these kinds of measurements on routine radiation protection practices is briefly addressed.