Kilopower Space Reactor Launch Safety - Maximum Credible Dose for a Criticality Accident
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
This note examines potential consequences for the Kilopower small space reactor going critical during a launch accident. The goal of this analysis is to postulate the dose at a distance that could be generated during a criticality accident event (with emphasis on potential public doses.) This note does not examine local consequences to an individual who would be close enough to the reactor (within several 10’s of meters) to receive a lethal dose from the direct shine of neutrons and gamma radiation present when the reactor is critical.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1473765
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-28899
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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