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

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.48 Nuclear engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Los Alamos, N.M. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2015
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 9 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 256486
• Chủ đề: 1. 21 specific nuclear reactors and associated plants; 2. 30 direct energy conversion; 3. 33 advanced propulsion systems

Tóm tắt

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.