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Proving DRACO will deliver
The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
Travis Grove, David Hayes, Joetta Goda, George McKenzie, Jesson Hutchinson, Theresa Cutler, John Bounds, Jessie Walker, William Myers, Rene Sanchez
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 1 | June 2020 | Pages 68-77
Technical Paper – Kilopower/KRUSTY special issue | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2020.1712950
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For the Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) cold critical experiments, the KRUSTY component critical configuration was modified by the addition of parts that would be required for cold, warm, and hot critical experiments (including the vacuum chamber as well as the heat pipes and associated parts). Reactivity measurements were performed on the KRUSTY cold critical experimental configurations with the goal of obtaining reactivity-worth measurements on the beryllium oxide (BeO) reflector and the boron carbide (B4C) control rod parts. The resulting data are consistent and allow for accurate identification of the BeO and B4C part thicknesses required to achieve the excess reactivity needed for the KRUSTY warm and hot experimental configurations.