This paper summarizes some of the major safety issues and proposed and developed solutions to real and perceived problems. Safety of the public, operating personnel, facilities and the environment has always been a driving concern of the public, government agencies, system designers and users of nuclear power and propulsion systems.
Nuclear safety has been an evolving science as increased knowledge has accumulated over the past 50 years of manmade nuclear reactor existence. This historical paper will try to provide some perspective to that evolution.
Evolution of space reactor safety
Proceedings of the tenth symposium on space nuclear power and propulsion ; 1993 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 271 , 1 ; 415-422
1993-01-10
8 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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