No abstract

This document was prepared, by the Martin Company, to describe a portion of the work accomplished under the Strontium-90 Fuel Development program Contract AT(30-l)-3062, for the Division of Isotope Development, Atomic Energy Commission. In the first part, a theoretical model is developed to predict the debris size distribution from the breakup of molten particles under the action of aerodynamic re-entry forces. The second section describes an experiment which proved the feasibility of using a light gas gun to accelerate micron-size particles into a simulated altitude chamber at re-entry velocities. The experiments were conducted by the Ballistic Research Laboratories at

No abstract