Download or read book Fast Reactor Rocket Engines criticality written by Ralph Sherman Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast Reactor Rocket Engines heat Transfer written by Ralph Sherman Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criticality Calculations of a Nuclear Reactor Rocket Engine written by Gerald Murray Litton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Rocket Engine Reactor written by Anatoly Lanin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph recounts and details the development of a nuclear rocket engine reactor (NRER). In particular, it explains the working capacity of an active zone NRER under mechanical and thermal load, intensive neutron fluxes, and high-energy generation (up to 30 MBT/l) in a working medium (hydrogen) at temperatures up to 3100 K. The design principles and bearing capacity of reactors area discussed on the basis of simulation experiments and test data of a prototype reactor. Property data of dense constructional, porous thermal insulating and fuel materials such as carbide and uranium carbide compounds in the temperatures interval 300 - 3000 K are presented.; technological aspects of strength and thermal strength resistance of materials are also considered. As well, a procedure to design possible emergency processes in the NRER is developed and risks for their origination are evaluated. Finally, prospects for use in pilotless space devices and piloted interplanetary ships are reviewed.
Download or read book Design and Analysis of MHD augmented Fast Reactor Nuclear Rocket Engine written by Stanley Gilbert Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feasibility of Colloid Core Nuclear Reactor for Rocket Propulsion written by Bobby N. Turman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study has been conducted to determine the feasibility of the colloid core nuclear reactor (CCNR) for rocket propulsion. Investigations of powder containment, reactor criticality, nuclear fuel vaporization, heat transfer, and wall erosion are discussed. Results are scaled and integrated to specify an optimized design reactor rocket engine. Rocket engine performance is evaluated with respect to velocity capability, type of fuel, and fuel loss rate. It is concluded that the CCNR rocket engine is technically feasible, that a thrust-to-weight ratio of 6:1 is obtainable at 20,000 lb thrust, and that the maximum specific impulse cannot exceed 1020 sec. Furthermore, results indicate that the CCNR shows significant performance advantages over chemical and other nuclear rocket engines for missions requiring payloads on the order of 10,000 lb, with large excess velocity capability. Recommendations are made as to the steps necessary to the further development of the colloid core nuclear reactor rocket. (Author).
Download or read book The Nuclear Rocket written by Howard R. Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental and practical survey is made of nuclear rocket application to space vehicle propulsion. The engine is described and propellant and radiation effects are discussed. Project Rover is summarized and performance requirements for a space vehicle are discussed. It is concluded that nuclear rockets can provide substantial performance, reliability, and economic advantages for difficult space missions. (T.R.H.).
Download or read book Principles of Nuclear Rocket Propulsion written by William J. Emrich, Jr. and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Nuclear Rocket Propulsion provides an understanding of the physical principles underlying the design and operation of nuclear fission-based rocket engines. While there are numerous texts available describing rocket engine theory and nuclear reactor theory, this is the first book available describing the integration of the two subject areas. Most of the book's emphasis is primarily on nuclear thermal rocket engines, wherein the energy of a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant to high temperatures and then expel it through a nozzle to produce thrust. Other concepts are also touched upon such as a section devoted to the nuclear pulse rocket concept wherein the force of externally detonated nuclear explosions is used to accelerate a spacecraft. Future crewed space missions beyond low earth orbit will almost certainly require propulsion systems with performance levels exceeding that of today's best chemical engines. A likely candidate for that propulsion system is the solid core Nuclear Thermal Rocket or NTR. Solid core NTR engines are expected to have performance levels which significantly exceed that achievable by any currently conceivable chemical engine. The challenge is in the engineering details of the design which includes not only the thermal, fluid, and mechanical aspects always present in chemical rocket engine development, but also nuclear interactions and some unique materials restrictions.
Download or read book Comparison of Fast Moderated heterogeneous and Moderated homogeneous High temperature Reactors for Nuclear rocket Propulsion written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Thermal and Electric Rocket Propulsion written by R. A. Willaume and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration written by National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration identifies primary technical and programmatic challenges, merits, and risks for developing and demonstrating space nuclear propulsion technologies of interest to future exploration missions. This report presents key milestones and a top-level development and demonstration roadmap for performance nuclear thermal propulsion and nuclear electric propulsion systems and identifies missions that could be enabled by successful development of each technology.
Download or read book Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems written by David Buden and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in rockets that use fission reactors as the heat source has centered on manned flights to Mars. The demands of such missions require rockets that are several times more powerful than the chemical rockets in use today.Rocket engines operate according to the basic principles expressed in Newton's third law of motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In a chemical rocket, hot gases are created by chemical combustion; in a nuclear rocket heating of the propellant in a nuclear reactor creates hot gas. In either case, the hot gases flow through the throat of the rocket nozzle where they expand and develop thrust.Extensive development effort has been expended on nuclear rockets. The nuclear Rover/ NERVA rocket programs provide a very high confidence level that the technology for a flight nuclear rocket exists. These programs demonstrated power levels between 507 MWt and 4,100 MWt and thrust levels of up to 930 kN (200,000 Ibf). Specific impulse, a measure of rocket performance, was more than twice that of chemical rockets. Ground testing and technology development has been done on several concepts described in this book. However, though there appear to be no technical barriers to the development of a successful nuclear rocket, no nuclear rockets have been flown in space.This book describes the fundamentals of nuclear rockets, the safety and other mission requirements, developmental history of various concepts both in the U.S. and Russia, and it summarizes key developmental issues.
Download or read book Nuclear Criticality Study of a Specific Vortex stabilized Gaseous Nuclear Rocket Engine written by Thomas S. Latham and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Rocket Propulsion written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secondary Criticality After Melt Down Accident of Fast Reactor written by Toshiaki Suzuki and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast Reactors written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-06 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
