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Title: Thermionic system evaluation test (TSET) facility construction: A United States and Russian effort

Abstract

The Thermionic System Evaluation Test (TSET) is a ground test of an unfueled Russian TOPAZ-II in-core thermionic space reactor powered by electric heaters. The facility that will be used for testing of the TOPAZ-II systems is located at the New Mexico Engineering Research Institute (NMERI) complex in Albuquerque, NM. The reassembly of the Russian test equipment is the responsibility of International Scientific Products (ISP), a San Jose, CA, company and Inertek, a Russian corporation, with support provided by engineers and technicians from Phillips Laboratory (PL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and the University of New Mexico (UNM). This test is the first test to be performed under the New Mexico Strategic Alliance agreement. This alliance consist of the PL, SNL, LANL, and UNM. The testing is being funded by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) with the PL responsible for project execution.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOD; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6960188
Report Number(s):
SAND-92-2276C; CONF-930103-26
ON: DE93004499
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00789
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 10. symposium on space nuclear power and propulsion, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 10-14 Jan 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; SPACE POWER REACTORS; TESTING; TEST FACILITIES; CONSTRUCTION; THERMIONIC CONVERTERS; DEGASSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PLANNING; TOPAZ REACTOR; TRAINING; USA; USSR; VACUUM SYSTEMS; ASIA; COOPERATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS; EDUCATION; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; HYDRIDE MODERATED REACTORS; MOBILE REACTORS; NORTH AMERICA; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; NESDPS Office of Nuclear Energy Space and Defense Power Systems; 210600* - Power Reactors, Auxiliary, Mobile Package, & Transportable; 300402 - Thermionic Converters- Performance & Testing

Citation Formats

Wold, S K. Thermionic system evaluation test (TSET) facility construction: A United States and Russian effort. United States: N. p., 1992. Web.
Wold, S K. Thermionic system evaluation test (TSET) facility construction: A United States and Russian effort. United States.
Wold, S K. 1992. "Thermionic system evaluation test (TSET) facility construction: A United States and Russian effort". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6960188.
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