Hydroxylamine nitrate (HAN) is an important member of the hydroxylamine compound family with applications that include equipment decontamination in the nuclear industry and aqueous or solid propellants. Due to its instability and autocatalytic behavior, HAN has been involved in several incidents at the Hanford and Savannah River Site (SRS) [Technical Report on Hydroxylamine Nitrate, US Departme...

The potential for damage, the magnitude of the extrapolation, and the importance of the atypical—incidents that occur once in a thousand shots—make theory and simulation essential for ensuring that relativistic runaway electrons will not prevent ITER from achieving its mission. Most of the theoretical literature on electron runaway assumes magnetic surfaces exist. ITER planning for the avoidanc...

We present a new study of the collisional runaway scenario to form an intermediatemass black hole (IMBH, MBH & 100M⊙) at the centre of a young, compact stellar cluster. The first phase is the formation of a very dense central core of massive stars (M∗ ≃ 30 − 120M⊙) through mass segregation and gravothermal collapse. Previous work established the conditions for this to happen before the massive ...

A strategy has been developed for the assessment of both thermal decomposition hazards and thermal runaway potential in intended exothermic reactions. The strategy is based on the application of simple, cost-effective experimental techniques. The results from these techniques have been compared with those from commercially available instruments, and indicate a similar level of sensitivity. Resu...

The recent finding by Chevalier & Ilovaisky (1998) from Hipparcos observations that OB-supergiant X-ray binaries have relatively large runaway velocities (mean peculiar tangential velocity 〈vtr〉 = 42 ± 14 km s), whereas Be/X-ray binaries have low runaway velocities (〈vtr〉 = 15±6km s ), provides confirmation of the current models for the formation of these two types of systems. These predict a d...