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Creator:: Makinson, Kevin A.
Abstract:: The Run-Ahead Predictive Simulation Software (RAPSS) is an architecture designed for faster-than-real-time decision support for operators of complex networks. To enable further development of the RAPSS methodology, the necessary proof of principle is illustrated in two applications: decision support for shift technical advisors in nuclear power plant control rooms (RAPSS-STA),...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: support for shift technical advisors in nuclear power plant control rooms (RAPSS-STA), and in the event

Creator:: Webb, Brent Jonathan
Abstract:: The development of a novel high temperature space radiator is described. A Rotating Bubble Membrane Radiator (RBMR) combines the best features of heat pipes and droplet radiators while avoiding their negative attributes. The RBMR offers light weight, self deployment, ease of startup and its performance is less affected by acceleration....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: membrane radiator for space-based nuclear power systems AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brent Jonathan

Creator:: Gedeon, Stephen R.
Abstract:: Preliminary nuclear design studies have been completed on ten configurations of nuclear reactors for low power (1-30 kWe) space applications utilizing thermionic energy conversion. Additional design studies have been conducted on the TRICE multimegawatt in-core thermionic reactor configuration. In each of the cases, a reactor configuration has been determined which...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: array also behaves as a sail in the solar wind, and at power levels above at most a few tens of

Creator:: Al-Baroudi, Homan Mohammed-Zahid
Abstract:: A rotating, flat plate condensation experiment has been developed to investigate the heat of the Rotating Bubble Membrane Radiator (RBMR). The RBMR is a proposed heat rejection system for space applications which uses working fluid condensation on the inside surface of a rotating sphere to reject heat to space. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: radiator for space nuclear power systems AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Homam Mohammed-Zahid Al-Baroudi

Creator:: Lee, Hsing Hui
Abstract:: Incore thermionic space reactor design concepts which operate at a nominal power output range of 20 to 50 kWe are described. Details of the neutronic, thermionic, thermal hydraulics and shielding performance are presented. Due to the strong absorption of thermal neutrons by natural tungsten, and the large amount of that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thermionic space reactor design concepts which operate at a nominal power output range of 20 to 50 kWe are

Creator:: Lewis, Bryan R.
Abstract:: An overall systems design code was developed to model an advanced in-core thermionic energy conversion based nuclear reactor system for space applications at power levels of 10 to 50 kWe. The purpose of this work was to provide the overall shell for the systems code and to also provide the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: applications at power levels of 10 to 50 kWe. The purpose of this work was to provide the overall shell for

Creator:: Riley, Thomas H.
Abstract:: This project was a proof of concept of the use of the RAVEN software, a tool developed for the Risk Informed Safety Margin Characterization (RISMC) approach, with RELAP5-3D. This novel approach combines older probabilistic and mechanistic approaches to look at how and why the complex systems of a nuclear power...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: complex systems of a nuclear power plant might fail in an accident scenario in greater detail than the

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