Long operation life reactor for lunar surface power

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2339-2352

  El Genk, Mohamed S ^a   Schriener, Timothy M ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BED REACTORS; BINARY GAS MIXTURE; CLOSED BRAYTON CYCLE; EXCESS REACTIVITY; EXIT TEMPERATURE; FUEL DEPLETION; HEAT REJECTION; INCONEL; LUNAR SURFACE; MATRIX; NEUTRONICS; OPERATION LIFE; OPERATIONAL LIFE; POWER SYSTEMS; RADIATOR PANEL; REACTOR COOLANTS; SPHERICAL FUELS; WATER HEAT PIPES; WORKING FLUID;

BRAYTON CYCLE; ENERGY CONVERSION; LAUNCHING; ORE PELLETS; PELLETIZING; SEAWATER; XENON; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

MOON;

EID: 79957779718     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.02.024     Document Type: Article

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