Probabilistic analysis of the inadvertent reentry of the Cassini spacecraft's radioisotope thermoelectric generators

Risk Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 251-260

  Frank, Michael V ^a  

^a Safety Factor Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Probabilistic risk analysis; Source terms; Spacecraft reentry; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; GENERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ALGORITHMS; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; GRAPHITE; HEAT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PLUTONIUM; POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0034046310     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0272-4332.202024     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel, "Supporting Technical Studies Prepared for the Cassini Mission Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel Safety Evaluation Report" Washington, DC (October 1997).
2. Cassani Mission Final Safety Analysis Report, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company Valley Forge Operations, "General Purpose Heat Source-Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators in Support of the Cassini Mission Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR)," CDRL C.3 (1997).
3. R. Baker and D. Nelson, "Radioisotope Thermal Generator Survivability for Earth Reentries," Proceedings of the International Conference on Probabilistic Safety and Management (PSAM4) (London, UK: Springer-Verlag, 1998).
4. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Cassini Program Environmental Impact Statement Supporting Study. Volume 3: Cassini Earth Swingby Plan," Report JPL D-10178-3, Pasadena, CA (18 November 1993).
5. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Cassini Earth Swingby Plan Supplement," Report JPL D-10178-3, Pasadena, CA (19 May 1997).
6. R. B. Hobbs, "MHW-HSA Aerodynamic Performance Test Report," Data Memo 9151-001, General Electric Company, ReEntry Systems Department, Aerothermodynamics Engineering Laboratory, Livermore, CA (August 1973).
7. J. E. Hanafee, "Analysis of Beryllium Parts for Cosmos 954," UCRL-52597, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (25 October 1978).
8. Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel, "Biomedical and Environmental Effects Subpanel Report for Ulysses," INSRP 90-06, Washington, DC (July 1990).
9. G. Apostolakis, "The concept of probability in safety assessments of technological systems," Science 250, 1359-1364 (1990).