Journal
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
Volume 206, Issue -, Pages S1-+Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00295450.2020.1722554
Keywords
Space nuclear reactor; Kilopower Project; NASA; Mars; Moon
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- NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and Game Changing Development Program
- DOE National Nuclear Security Administration, Nuclear Criticality Safety Program
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The Kilopower Project was initiated by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate/Game Changing Development Program in fiscal year 2015 to demonstrate subsystem-level technology readiness of small space fission power in a relevant environment (Technology Readiness Level 5) for space science and human exploration power needs. The Kilopower Project centerpiece is the Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) test, which consists of the development and testing of a ground technology demonstrator of a 1-kW(electric)-class fission power system (FPS). The technologies to be developed and validated by KRUSTY are extensible to space FPSs from 1 to 10 kW(electric), which can enable modular surface FPSs for human exploration as well as higher-power future potential deep space science missions. The KRUSTY demonstration is cofunded by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration. The KRUSTY demonstration in the National Critical Experiment Research Center's Device Assembly Facility was completed in the first quarter of 2018.
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