A pathway for Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated (FCM) fuels in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP)

Caen Ang, Lance Snead, Alex Gordon, Kelsa Benensky, Sam Judd, David Sprouster, Yutai Kato

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)42-45
Number of pages4
JournalTransactions of the American Nuclear Society
Volume121
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, ANS 2019 - Washington, United States
Duration: Nov 17 2019Nov 21 2019

Funding

Michael Koehler, William Scott Emert and John Dunlap (UTK) contributed to the experimental investigations. The authors would like thank Jim Kiggans and Kurt Terrani (ORNL) for technical discussions. The authors acknowledge Paolo Venneri, Aaron Selby and Kelsey Souza (USNC-Space) for their contributions to the development of prototypes. The work presented in this paper was funded by NASA Contract No. 80MSFC18C0011 supporting Versatile NTP and conducted on equipment donated by Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (Seattle, WA, USA).

FundersFunder number
USNC-Space
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
William Scott Emert and John Dunlap
National Aeronautics and Space Administration80MSFC18C0011
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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