Nuclear power in space : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, September 30, 1989
Nuclear power in space : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, September 30, 1989.
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Good. iii, [1], 183, [5] pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Ink notation and pencil erasure residue on front page. Mail label mark on back page. The hearing addressed: Usefulness of space power research to ground-based nuclear reactor systems--Personnel development and educational needs of the universities as they relate to the development of space nuclear power systems--Nuclear power plants for space vehicles developed--and Role of the universities in supporting the space nuclear power technology development. Witnesses from the Air Force, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy, the General Accounting Office, Westinghouse Hanford, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory testified. Nuclear power in space is the use of nuclear power in outer space, typically either small fission systems or radioactive decay for electricity or heat. One common type is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which has been used on many space probes and on manned lunar missions, and another is small fission reactors for Earth observation satellites such as the TOPAZ nuclear reactor. A radioisotope heater unit provides heat from radioactive decay of a material and can potentially produce heat for decades. R The United States tested a nuclear reactor in space for 43 days in 1965. While not yet tested in space, the test of the Demonstration Using Flattop Fission (DUFF) on September 13, 2012 was the first test of a nuclear reactor power system for space since then. Examples of nuclear power for space propulsion systems include nuclear electric rocket, radioisotope rocket, and radioisotope electric propulsion. One of the more explored is the nuclear thermal rocket, which was tested in the NERVA program.
