U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Conceptual design. Final report: TFE Verification Program
Abstract
This report documents the TFE Conceptual Design, which provided the design guidance for the TFE Verification program. The primary goals of this design effort were: (1) establish the conceptual design of an in-core thermionic reactor for a 2 Mw(e) space nuclear power system with a 7-year operating lifetime; (2) demonstrate scalability of the above concept over the output power range of 500 kW(e) to 5 MW(e); and (3) define the TFE which is the basis for the 2 MW (e) reactor design. This TFE specification provided the basis for the test program. These primary goals were achieved. The technical approach taking in the conceptual design effort is discussed in Section 2, and the results are discussed in Section 3. The remainder of this introduction draws a perspective on the role that this conceptual design task played in the TFE Verification Program.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10155357
- Report Number(s):
- GA-A-21590
ON: DE94012469; BR: 400403000/400403105; TRN: 94:012054
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-86SF16298
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Mar 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; THERMIONIC REACTORS; THERMIONIC FUEL ELEMENTS; DESIGN; PROGRESS REPORT; SPACE POWER REACTORS; SERVICE LIFE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CESIUM; THERMIONIC EMITTERS; THERMIONIC CONVERTERS; WORKING FLUIDS; NESDPS Office of Nuclear Energy Space and Defense Power Systems; 210600; 300401; POWER REACTORS, MOBILE, PROPULSION, PACKAGE, AND TRANSPORTABLE; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Citation Formats
. Conceptual design. Final report: TFE Verification Program. United States: N. p., 1994.
Web. doi:10.2172/10155357.
. Conceptual design. Final report: TFE Verification Program. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10155357
. 1994.
"Conceptual design. Final report: TFE Verification Program". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10155357. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10155357.
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abstractNote = {This report documents the TFE Conceptual Design, which provided the design guidance for the TFE Verification program. The primary goals of this design effort were: (1) establish the conceptual design of an in-core thermionic reactor for a 2 Mw(e) space nuclear power system with a 7-year operating lifetime; (2) demonstrate scalability of the above concept over the output power range of 500 kW(e) to 5 MW(e); and (3) define the TFE which is the basis for the 2 MW (e) reactor design. This TFE specification provided the basis for the test program. These primary goals were achieved. The technical approach taking in the conceptual design effort is discussed in Section 2, and the results are discussed in Section 3. The remainder of this introduction draws a perspective on the role that this conceptual design task played in the TFE Verification Program.},
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year = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
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