Nuclear Safety Policy Working Group Recommendations on Nuclear Propulsion Safety for the Space Exploration Initiative

Download or read book Nuclear Safety Policy Working Group Recommendations on Nuclear Propulsion Safety for the Space Exploration Initiative written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interagency Nuclear Safety Working Group (NSPWG) was chartered to recommend nuclear safety policy, requirements, and guidelines for the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) nuclear propulsion program. These recommendations, which are contained in this report, should facilitate the implementation of mission planning and conceptual design studies. The NSPWG has recommended a top-level policy to provide the guiding principles for the development and implementation of the SEI nuclear propulsion safety program. In addition, the NSPWG has reviewed safety issues for nuclear propulsion and recommended top-level safety requirements and guidelines to address these issues. These recommendations should be useful for the development of the program's top-level requirements for safety functions (referred to as Safety Functional Requirements). The safety requirements and guidelines address the following topics: reactor start-up, inadvertent criticality, radiological release and exposure, disposal, entry, safeguards, risk/reliability, operational safety, ground testing, and other considerations. Marshall, Albert C. and Lee, James H. and Mcculloch, William H. and Sawyer, J. Charles, Jr. and Bari, Robert A. and Cullingford, Hatice S. and Hardy, Alva C. and Niederauer, George F. and Remp, Kerry and Rice, John W. Glenn Research Center; Kennedy Space Center...