Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Demonstration. CEDT Phase 1 Preliminary Design Documentation

doi:https://doi.org/10.2172/1212629

Title: Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Demonstration. CEDT Phase 1 Preliminary Design Documentation

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The intent of the integral experiment request IER 299 (called KiloPower by NASA) is to assemble and evaluate the operational performance of a compact reactor configuration that closely resembles the flight unit to be used by NASA to execute a deep space exploration mission. The reactor design will include heat pipes coupled to Stirling engines to demonstrate how one can generate electricity when extracting energy from a “nuclear generated” heat source. This series of experiments is a larger scale follow up to the DUFF series of experiments1,2 that were performed using the Flat-Top assembly.

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Sanchez, Rene Gerardo ^[1]; Hutchinson, Jesson D. ^[1]; Mcclure, Patrick Ray ^[1]; Myers, William L. ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: 2015-08-20

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE; National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1212629

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-26603

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS

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                    Sanchez, Rene Gerardo, Hutchinson, Jesson D., Mcclure, Patrick Ray, and Myers, William L. Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Demonstration. CEDT Phase 1 Preliminary Design Documentation.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
        Web.  doi:10.2172/1212629.

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                    Sanchez, Rene Gerardo, Hutchinson, Jesson D., Mcclure, Patrick Ray, & Myers, William L. Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Demonstration. CEDT Phase 1 Preliminary Design Documentation.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1212629

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                    Sanchez, Rene Gerardo, Hutchinson, Jesson D., Mcclure, Patrick Ray, and Myers, William L. Thu .  
        "Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Demonstration. CEDT Phase 1 Preliminary Design Documentation".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1212629.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1212629.

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@article{osti_1212629,

  title        = {Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Demonstration. CEDT Phase 1 Preliminary Design Documentation},

  author       = {Sanchez, Rene Gerardo and Hutchinson, Jesson D. and Mcclure, Patrick Ray and Myers, William L.},

  abstractNote = {The intent of the integral experiment request IER 299 (called KiloPower by NASA) is to assemble and evaluate the operational performance of a compact reactor configuration that closely resembles the flight unit to be used by NASA to execute a deep space exploration mission. The reactor design will include heat pipes coupled to Stirling engines to demonstrate how one can generate electricity when extracting energy from a “nuclear generated” heat source. This series of experiments is a larger scale follow up to the DUFF series of experiments1,2 that were performed using the Flat-Top assembly.},

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