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Organic Materials Ionizing Radiation Susceptibility for the Outer Planet/Solar Probe Radioisotope Power Source

Author
Golliher, Eric L.
Published
January 2001.
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Pepper, Stephen V.
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Summary
The Department of Energy is considering the current Stirling Technology Corporation 55 We Stirling Technology Demonstration Convertor as a baseline option for an advanced radioisotope power source for the Outer Planets/Solar Probe project of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other missions. However, since the Technology Demonstration Convertor contains organic materials chosen without any special consideration of flight readiness, and without any consideration of the extremely high radiation environment of Europa, a preliminary investigation was performed to address the radiation susceptibility of the current organic materials used in the Technology Demonstration Convertor. This report documents the results of the investigation. The results of the investigation show that candidate replacement materials have been identified to be acceptable in the harsh Europa radiation environment.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20010049269.
AIAA Paper 2000-3077.
NAS 1.15:210245.
NASA/TM-2001-210245.
E-12364.
35th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference; 24-28 Jul. 2000; Las Vegas, NV; United States.
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