NSPWG-Recommended Safety Requirements and Guidelines for SEI Nuclear Propulsion

Conference · Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7102430

Marshall, Albert C. ^[1]; Sawyer, Jr, J. Charles ^[2]; Bari, Robert A. ^[3]; Brown, Neil W. ^[4]; Cullingford, Hatice S. ^[5]; Hardy, Alva C. ^[5]; Lee, James H. ^[1]; McCulloch, William H. ^[1]; Niederauer, George F. ^[6]; Remp, Kerry ^[7]; Rice, John W. ^[8]; Sholtis, Joseph A. ^[9]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Washington, DC (United States)
3. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
4. General Electric Co., San Jose, CA (United States)
5. NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX (United States)
6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
7. NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
8. Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
9. Air Force Research Lab. (AFRL), Kirtland Air Force Base, NM (United States)

An Interagency Nuclear Safety Policy Working Group (NSPWG) was chartered to recommend nuclear safety policy, requirements, and guidelines for the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) nuclear propulsion program to facilitate the implementation of mission planning and conceptual design studies. The NSPWG developed a top-level policy to provide the guiding principles for the development and implementation of the nuclear propulsion safety program and the development of Safety Functional Requirements. In addition, the NSPWG reviewed safety issues for nuclear propulsion and recommended top-level safety requirements and guidelines to address these issues. Safety requirements were developed for reactor start-up, inadvertent criticality, radiological release and exposure, disposal, entry, and safeguards. Guidelines were recommended for risk/reliability, operational safety, flight trajectory and mission abort, space debris and meteoroids, and ground test safety. In this paper the specific requirements and guidelines will be discussed.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); General Electric Co., San Jose, CA (United States); Air Force Research Lab. (AFRL), Kirtland Air Force Base, NM (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Washington, DC (United States); NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX (United States); NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOD
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 7102430
• Report Number(s): BNL-47728; CONF-920747-11; AIAA-92-3697; ON: DE92018117
• Resource Relation: Conference: AIAA/SAE/ASME/ASEE 28. Joint Propulsion Conference, Nashville, TN (United States), 6-8 Jul 1992
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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