SAFE-100 Module Fabrication and Test

摘要

Reliable, long-life, low-cost heat pipes can enable safe, affordable space fission power and propulsionrnsystems. Advanced versions of these systems can in turn allow rapid access to any point in the solar system.rnStainless steel heat pipe modules are being built at Advanced Methods and Materials for use in a non-nuclearrnthermal hydraulic simulation of the SAFE-100 reactor. SAFE-100 is a near-term, low-cost space fission systemrndemonstration. The heat pipes were designed to remove thermal power from the SAFE-100 core, and transfer thisrnpower to an electrical power conversion system. These heat pipe modules are being delivered to NASA MarshallrnSpace Flight Center to be filled and tested in a prototypical configuration during CY2003. The construction andrntest of a SAFE-100 module prototype is described.