In-Pile High-Temperature Testing Vehicle for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Instrumentation, Materials, and Fuel Testing

Brandon Wilson; Tyler Steiner; Emily Hutchins; Lawrence Heilbronn; N. Dianne Bull Ezell

doi:10.13182/NETS22-38682

In-Pile High-Temperature Testing Vehicle for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Instrumentation, Materials, and Fuel Testing

Brandon Wilson, Tyler Steiner, Emily Hutchins, Lawrence Heilbronn, N. Dianne Bull Ezell

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NASA is collaborating with industry and national laboratory partners on nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) and nuclear electric propulsion for enabling crewed missions to Mars in the 2030s.¹ Within the Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0, NASA has identified NTP as the preferred propulsion option.² Certifying a NTP rocket for a Mars mission will require extensive irradiation studies to understand the impact of neutron and gamma radiation on typical rocket components. Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Nuclear Engineering Department developed a nuclear test bed enabling materials, sensors, and fuel to be studied and certified in prototypic NTP environments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022
Publisher	American Nuclear Society
Pages	482-486
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780894487828
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13182/NETS22-38682
State	Published - 2022
Event	2022 Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022 - Cleveland, United States Duration: May 8 2022 → May 12 2022

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Name	Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022

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Conference	2022 Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cleveland
Period	05/8/22 → 05/12/22

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for

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Wilson, B., Steiner, T., Hutchins, E., Heilbronn, L., & Ezell, N. D. B. (2022). In-Pile High-Temperature Testing Vehicle for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Instrumentation, Materials, and Fuel Testing. In Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022 (pp. 482-486). (Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022). American Nuclear Society. https://doi.org/10.13182/NETS22-38682

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In-Pile High-Temperature Testing Vehicle for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Instrumentation, Materials, and Fuel Testing. / Wilson, Brandon; Steiner, Tyler; Hutchins, Emily et al.
Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022. American Nuclear Society, 2022. p. 482-486 (Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022).

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Wilson B, Steiner T, Hutchins E, Heilbronn L, Ezell NDB. In-Pile High-Temperature Testing Vehicle for Nuclear Thermal Rocket Instrumentation, Materials, and Fuel Testing. In Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022. American Nuclear Society. 2022. p. 482-486. (Proceedings of Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, NETS 2022). doi: 10.13182/NETS22-38682

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