Safety test of an improved multihundred watt FSA: launch abort, solid propellant fire

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Title: Safety test of an improved multihundred watt FSA: launch abort, solid propellant fire

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This safety test consisted of exposing a simulant-fueled Improved Multihundred Watt Fuel Sphere Assembly, containing a Pt-3008 sphere holding the fuel simulant, to a single proximity fire of UTP-3001 solid rocket propellant for 10.5 min. The graphite outside shell sustained only minor abrasion damage. It was covered on one side with a heavy deposit of alumina from the fire mixed with silica from the test bed. The Pt-3008 shell had small amounts of carbon, alumina, and silica deposited on its surface but sustained no other damage. The PT-3008 sphere was not breached, and therefore the fuel sphere assembly would not release fuel in a solid-propellant fire of a launch abort. 12 figures.

Authors:: Seabourn, C M

Publication Date:: 1978-07-01

Research Org.:: Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)

OSTI Identifier:: 6653079

Report Number(s):: LA-7314-MS
TRN: 78-018021

DOE Contract Number:: W-7405-ENG-36

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 07 ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOISOTOPE HEAT SOURCES; SAFETY; CONTAINERS; DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; FIRES; GRAPHITE; PERFORMANCE TESTING; PLATINUM BASE ALLOYS; PROPELLANTS; RHODIUM ALLOYS; SPHERES; TUNGSTEN ALLOYS; ALLOYS; CARBON; ELEMENTS; HEAT SOURCES; MATERIALS TESTING; NONMETALS; PLATINUM ALLOYS; PLATINUM METAL ALLOYS; TESTING; NESDPS Office of Nuclear Energy Space and Defense Power Systems; 070300* - Isotopic Power Supplies

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  title        = {Safety test of an improved multihundred watt FSA: launch abort, solid propellant fire},

  author       = {Seabourn, C M},

  abstractNote = {This safety test consisted of exposing a simulant-fueled Improved Multihundred Watt Fuel Sphere Assembly, containing a Pt-3008 sphere holding the fuel simulant, to a single proximity fire of UTP-3001 solid rocket propellant for 10.5 min. The graphite outside shell sustained only minor abrasion damage. It was covered on one side with a heavy deposit of alumina from the fire mixed with silica from the test bed. The Pt-3008 shell had small amounts of carbon, alumina, and silica deposited on its surface but sustained no other damage. The PT-3008 sphere was not breached, and therefore the fuel sphere assembly would not release fuel in a solid-propellant fire of a launch abort. 12 figures.},

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