The use of nuclear electric propulsion can triple the payloads to GEO for a single Shuttle launch. Life orbits of 300 years can be used to allow most of the fission and activation products to decay before a reactor reenters the biosphere. Enough radioactive materials remain with very long lifetimes to make it desirable to design the reactor to disperse upon reentry and little additional risk to the biosphere is introduced by initiating NEP operations from 300 km.


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    Title :

    Space reactors - what is a kilogram?


    Additional title:

    Reaktoren in der Raumfahrt - Was ist ein Kilogramm?


    Contributors:
    Buden, D. (author) / Angelo, J. jun. (author) / Ek, D. (author) / Voss, S. (author)


    Publication date :

    1984


    Size :

    12 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 7 Tabellen, 6 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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