Benefit of lunar regolith on reflector mass savings

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 880, Issue , 2007, Pages 167-176

  Hatton, Steven A ^a   El Genk, Mohamed S ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Lunar regolith; Neutronics analysis; Space reactors

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958006589     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2437453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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