"SAIRS"- Scalable AMTEC integrated reactor space power system

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-69

  El Genk, Mohamed S ^a   Tournier, Jean Michel P ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

AMTEC; Heat pipes; NASA's Prometheus Project; Redundancy; Space reactor power system

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; LIQUID METALS; MOLYBDENUM; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RADIATORS; RADIOISOTOPES; REDUNDANCY; RHENIUM; SODIUM; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

AMTEC; NASA'S PROMETHEUS PROJECT; REACTOR POWER; SPACE REACTOR POWER SYSTEM;

NUCLEAR REACTORS;

EID: 10644254649     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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