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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Nuclear propulsion"”.
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The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975
This thesis covers the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974. There are three topics: Political, what problems were encountered in …
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Design of a coordinated plant control system for a marine nuclear propulsion plant
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1981.
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Analysis of an open cycle gas core nuclear propulsion system using HD driven vortices for fuel containment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.
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Mission and System Design for In-Situ Resource Utilization in the Outer Solar System using Nuclear Propulsion Technologies
… theoretical spacecraft designs, which compare nuclear propulsion systems for impulsive and continuous thrust. Each available propellant substance is compared in each propulsion system. Propellant acquisition systems are shown to be less advantageous overall for continuous thrust missions, where …
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A Design Tool For The Evaluation Of Atmosphere Independent Propulsion In Submarines
For the United States Navy, submarine propulsion has long since evolved from Diesel Electric to a complete reliance on Nuclear Power. Nuclear propulsion is the ultimate atmosphere independent power source...the submarine to divorce itself from the surface, limited only by the ...crew embarked. …
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Examination of the proposed conversion of the U.S. Navy nuclear fleet from highly enriched Uranium to low enriched Uranium
.The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons creates a loophole that allows a non-nuclear-weapon country to avoid international safeguards governing fissile materials if it claims that the materials will be used for naval nuclear propulsion purposes. The United States ability to …
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Effects of the USS Thresher disaster upon submarine safety and deep-submergence capabilities in the United States Navy
The loss of the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher (SSN 593) acted as a catalyst that accelerated improvements in submarine design, construction and operations. Such improvements resulted in a substantially safer submarine force, thereby making it more operationally reliable. The disaster also …
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The Design of Reactor Cores for Civil Nuclear Marine Propulsion
… the largest experience in operating nuclear power plants has been in nuclear naval propulsion, particularly submarines. This accumulated experience may become the basis of a proposed new generation of compact nuclear power plant designs. In an effort to de-carbonise commercial freight …
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Nuclear Electric Propulsion with Low Enriched Uranium
… have used monopropellant or fuel-oxidiser propulsion systems to provide the required delta-v for orbital transfers and other in-space manoeuvres. Electric propulsion offers an alternative means of providing thrust that makes much more economical use of propellant due to its very high …
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Novel Synthesis and Characterization of Uranium-Zirconium Carbonitride by Direct Casting
… to high temperature reactor applications such as nuclear thermal rockets. The present work investigates a novel liquid phase synthesis method involving the admission of nitrogen gas during arc melting of uranium, zirconium, and carbon. Initial microstructural examinations using scanning electron …