Small Reactor for Deep Space Exploration
Abstract
This is the first demonstration of a space nuclear reactor system to produce electricity in the United States since 1965, and an experiment demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and then harvest the heat to power a Stirling engine at the Nevada National Security Site's Device Assembly Facility confirms basic nuclear reactor physics and heat transfer for a simple, reliable space power system.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1132838
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; SPACE REACTORS; NUCLEAR POWER; SPACE EXPLORATION; STIRLING ENGINE; URANIUM; PLUTONIUM 238; FISSION; HEAT PIPES
Citation Formats
. Small Reactor for Deep Space Exploration. United States: N. p., 2012.
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"Small Reactor for Deep Space Exploration". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1132838.
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