Design considerations and conceptual designs for surface nuclear power systems for the Moon and Mars

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 813, Issue , 2006, Pages 920-931

  Blessing, David L ^a   Kirkland, Joel ^b  

^a Lockheed Martin Systems Management   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast spectrum reactors; Surface nuclear power

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751213905     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2169274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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