Instabilities in fissioning plasmas as applied to the gas-core nuclear rocket-engine

Published:: Jun 3, 1973.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document

Online Version

hdl.handle.net , Connect to this object online.

Availability

Finding items...

Restrictions on Access:

Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
Free-to-read Unrestricted online access

Summary:

The compressional wave spectrum excited in a fissioning uranium plasma confined in a cavity such as a gas cored nuclear reactor, is studied. Computer results are presented that solve the fluid equations for this problem including the effects of spatial gradients, nonlinearities, and neutron density gradients in the reactor. Typically the asymptotic fluctuation level for the plasma pressure is of order 1 percent.

Other Subject(s):

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Collection:

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

Note:

Document ID: 19730017946.
Accession ID: 73N26673.
NASA-CR-133235.

Terms of Use and Reproduction:

No Copyright.

View MARC record | catkey: 15748703