Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel Power System Subpanel review for the Ulysses mission
- Sandia National Laboratories, Space Power Systems Studies Division, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 (US)
As part of the Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel's assessment of the nuclear safety of NASA's Ulysses Mission to investigate properties of the sun, the Power System Subpanel has reviewed the safety analyses and risk evaluations done for the General Purpose Heat Source-Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator which provides on-board electrical power for the spacecraft. This paper summarizes the activities and results of that review. In general, the approach taken in the primary analysis, executed by the General Electric Company under contract to the Department of Energy, and the resulting conclusions were confirmed by the review. However, the Subpanel took some exceptions and modified the calculations accordingly, producing an independent evaluation of potential releases of radioactive fuel in launch and reentry accidents. Some of the more important of these exceptions are described briefly.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 5706679
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-910116-; CODEN: APCPC
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (USA), Vol. 217:1; Conference: 8. symposium on space nuclear power systems, Albuquerque, NM (USA), 6-10 Jan 1991; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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