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Space Nuclear Power

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Data on the development of nuclear power units for use in spacecraft—nuclear rocket engines and nuclear power units—are presented. Information on the creation of a reactor unit for a transport power module based on a megawatt-class nuclear power propulsion system is provided. The research results are presented, including modeling of neutron physics, heat transfer, and gas dynamics; testing of full-scale mock-ups of the main assemblies of the reactor unit; and conducting a control physical start-up.

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  1. Dollezhal’ Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. G. Dragunov

  2. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. G. Dragunov

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Translated by B. Alekseev

RAS Corresponding Member Yurii Grigor’evich Dragunov is Director for Science of Space Nuclear Installations of the Dollezhal’ Research and Development Institute of Power Engineering (NIKIET) and Head of the Department of Nuclear Reactors and Installations of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU).

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Dragunov, Y.G. Space Nuclear Power. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 91, 327–334 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331621030035

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