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

Technical Report · Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1212629· OSTI ID:1212629

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

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

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.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1212629
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-15-26603
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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