Nuclear Element Tests (NET) are being performed as part of the U.S. Air Force Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (SNTP) Program to evaluate high performance fuel elements intended for use in future nuclear propulsion systems. The NET experiments are to be performed at the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL’s) Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR). Objectives of these experiments are to provide engineering validation and demonstration of critical‐fuel‐element‐related technologies and an experimental data base to support analytical design methods for the SNTP Program. Currently, hardware for the first two fueled NET experiments has been fabricated, and cold flow tests have been accomplished with a representative set of hardware to assure the experimental capability to achieve test objectives in‐reactor. Assembly of the first NET experiment to test a representative nuclear fuel element is in progress, and planned operational sequences have been defined.
Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Nuclear Element Tests at Sandia National Laboratories
10th SymposiumùSpace Nuclear Power and Propulsion ; 1993 ; Albuquerque, NM, USA
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 271 , 2 ; 1181-1185
15.01.1993
5 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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