Space Nuclear Power References

From SEDSWiki

• Mason, L. S., "Surface Nuclear Power for Human Mars Missions", NASA report NASA TM-1999-208894, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, 1999.
• Mason, L. S., "A Comparison of Brayton and Stirling Space Nuclear Power Systems for Power Levels from 1 Kilowatt to 10 Megawatts", NASA report NASA TM-2001-210593, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, 2001.

• "Water and Regolith Shielding for Surface Reactor Missions"
• "Low-Mass Stirling Convertor Assembly Progress Update"
• "Advanced Stirling Convertor Update"
• "Radiation Shielding Design and Orientation Considerations for a 1 kWe Heat Pipe Cooled Reactor Utilized to Bore Through the Ice Caps of Mars"
• "A Stainless-Steel, Uranium-Dioxide, Potassium-Heatpipe-Cooled Surface Reactor"
• "Prototype Rhenium Component for Stirling Engine Power Conversion"