Study on startup characteristics of heat pipe cooled and AMTEC conversion space reactor system

摘要

Future exploration of deep space requires space power with high power density, light weight, low cost and high reliability. Space reactor is an excellent candidate with its unique characteristics of high specific power, low cost, strong environment adaptability and so on. Among all types of space reactors, heat pipe cooled space reactor, which adopts the passive heat pipe as core cooling component, is considered as one of the most promising choice and is widely studied all over the world. Startup-characteristics of this type space reactor are an active topic.