Published 1991
| Version v1
Book
SP-100 design, safety, and testing
Creators
- 1. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
Description
The SP-100 Program is developing a nuclear reactor power system that can enhance and/or enable future civilian and military space missions. The program is directed to develop space reactor technology to provide electrical power in the range of tens to hundreds of kilowatts. The major nuclear assembly test is to be conducted at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, and is designed to validate the performance of the 2.4-MWt nuclear and heat transport assembly. 10 refs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (United States)
- Imprint Title
- Space nuclear power systems. Part 1
- Imprint Pagination
- 518 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 292-300.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 24039033
- Subject category
- S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DESIGN; HANFORD RESERVATION; MARS SPACE PROBES; PROPULSION REACTORS; REACTOR SAFETY; REACTOR TECHNOLOGY; REACTORS; SNAP REACTORS; SPACE POWER REACTORS; SPACE PROPULSION REACTORS; SPACE VEHICLES
- Descriptors DEC
- MOBILE REACTORS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; POWER REACTORS; SAFETY; US DOE; US ORGANIZATIONS