Published 1984
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Space reactors: What is a kilogram
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The use of nuclear electric propulsion can triple payloads to GEO for a single Shuttle launch. Life orbits of 300 years can be used to allow most of the fission and activation products to decay before a reactor reenters the biosphere. Enough radioactive materials remain with very long lifetimes to make it desirable to design the reactor to disperse upon reentry and little additional risk to the biosphere is introduced by initiating NEP operations from 300 km
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01; 1 as DE84012656.
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 13 p.
- Report number
- LA-UR--84-1378
Conference
- Title
- Intersociety energy conversion engineering conference.
- Dates
- 19-24 Aug 1984.
- Place
- San Francisco, CA (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 16011109
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- PERFORMANCE; PLANNING; POWER GENERATION; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIOACTIVITY; SHIELDING; SPACE POWER REACTORS; SPACE PROPULSION REACTORS; SPECIFICATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MOBILE REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; PROPULSION REACTORS; REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-840804--20.