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Kilopower Project: The KRUSTY Fission Power Experiment and Potential Missions
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The Kilopower Project was initiated by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate/Game Changing Development Program in fiscal year 2015 to demonstrate subsystem-level technology readiness of small space fission power in a relevant environment (Technology Readiness Level 5) for space science and human exploration power needs. The Kilopower Project centerpiece is the Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) test, which consists of the development and testing of a ground technology demonstrator of a 1-kW(electric)–class fission power system (FPS). The technologies to be developed and validated by KRUSTY are extensible to space FPSs from 1 to 10 kW(electric), which can enable modular surface FPSs for human exploration as well as higher-power future potential deep space science missions. The KRUSTY demonstration is cofunded by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration. The KRUSTY demonstration in the National Critical Experiment Research Center’s Device Assembly Facility was completed in the first quarter of 2018.
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“The very first Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) was successfully tested in 2019, as reported by McClure 2020 [36].”
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“which is still significantly more than the PMR of space-rated nuclear fission reactors (NFR), which offer approximately5 W/kg [27,36].”
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NASA's Kilopower reactor development and the path to higher power missions
Gibson, M. A., Oleson, S. R., Poston, D. I., & McClure, P. (2017) · IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO) · doi:10.1109/aero.2017.7943946 · Cited by 133
Self-citationResults of the KRUSTY Nuclear System Test
Poston, D. I., Gibson, M. A., Sanchez, R. G., et al. (2020) · Nuclear Technology · doi:10.1080/00295450.2020.1730673 · Cited by 97
Self-citationKilopower, NASA's Small Fission Power System for Science and Human Exploration
Gibson, M. A., Mason, L. S., Bowman, C. L., et al. (2014) · AIAA International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC) · doi:10.2514/6.2014-3458 · Cited by 43
Self-citationKilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Component-Critical Experiments
Sanchez, R. G., Grove, T. J., Hayes, D. K., et al. (2020) · Nuclear Technology · doi:10.1080/00295450.2020.1722553 · Cited by 34
Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) Cold Critical Measurements
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Kilowatt-Class Fission Power Systems for Science and Human Precursor Missions
Mason, L. S., Gibson, M. A., & Poston, D. (2013) · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) · Cited by 19
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Metadata
- Authors
- McClure, P. R., Poston, D. I., Gibson, M. A., Mason, L. S., & Robinson, R. C.
- Affiliations
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Glenn Research Center (US)
- Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
- Corresponding author
- McClure, Patrick R.
- Venue
- Nuclear Technology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-06-04
- Volume
- 206
- Issue
- sup1
- ISSN
- 0029-5450 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-7471
- OpenAlex
- W3033505500
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 8.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nuclear Technology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- Space Technology Mission Directorate
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Nuclear Energy and Engineering › Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Nuclear Energy and Engineering › Advanced Energy Technologies and Civil Engineering Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Spacecraft Design and Technology
- Keywords
- Stirling engine, space nuclear propulsion
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