A lithium heat pipe cooled modular fast reactor (HPCMR) power system concept has been developed for manned lunar base application. The system is designed to use the static thermoelectric conversion module to produce over 100kW electricity for up to ten years. Waste heat is rejected by potassium heat pipe radiator. This system has advantages of low mass, long lifetime, no pumped liquid coolant, and no single point of failure. Main parameters of the system are also given in this paper.

Volume Subject Area:
Next Generation Reactors and Advanced Reactors
Topics:
Heat pipes, Coolants, Failure, Fast neutron reactors, Lithium, Potassium, Power systems (Machinery), Waste heat
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