NASA's Kilopower reactor development and the path to higher power missions MA Gibson, SR Oleson, DI Poston, P McClure 2017 IEEE aerospace conference, 1-14, 2017 | 165 | 2017 |
Design of megawatt power level heat pipe reactors PR Mcclure, DI Poston, VR Dasari, RS Reid Report of Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 2015 | 157 | 2015 |
KRUSTY reactor design DI Poston, MA Gibson, T Godfroy, PR McClure Nuclear Technology 206 (sup1), S13-S30, 2020 | 104 | 2020 |
The Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY (KRUSTY) nuclear ground test results and lessons learned MA Gibson, DI Poston, P McClure, T Godfroy, J Sanzi, MH Briggs 2018 International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 4973, 2018 | 95 | 2018 |
Kilopower project: the KRUSTY fission power experiment and potential missions PR McClure, DI Poston, MA Gibson, LS Mason, RC Robinson Nuclear Technology 206 (sup1), S1-S12, 2020 | 82 | 2020 |
Results of the KRUSTY nuclear system test DI Poston, MA Gibson, RG Sanchez, PR McClure Nuclear Technology 206 (sup1), S89-S117, 2020 | 76 | 2020 |
Improved best estimate plus uncertainty methodology, including advanced validation concepts, to license evolving nuclear reactors C Unal, B Williams, F Hemez, SH Atamturktur, P McClure Nuclear Engineering and Design 241 (5), 1813-1833, 2011 | 70 | 2011 |
Kilopower, NASA's small fission power system for science and human exploration MA Gibson, LS Mason, C Bowman, D Poston, P McClure, J Creasy, ... 12th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 3458, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
Kilopower reactors for potential space exploration missions DI Poston, M Gibson, P McClure Nuclear and emerging Technologies for Space, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
Heat transport and power conversion of the kilopower reactor test MA Gibson, DI Poston, PR McClure, JL Sanzi, TJ Godfroy, MH Briggs, ... Nuclear Technology 206 (sup1), 31-42, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
Lead–bismuth eutectic technology for Hyperion reactor J Zhang, RJ Kapernick, PR McClure, TJ Trapp Journal of nuclear materials 441 (1-3), 644-649, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
Design of the KRUSTY Reactor DI Poston, M Gibson, T Godfroy, P McClure Proceedings NETS-2018, ANS, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
Results of the KRUSTY warm critical experiments DI Poston, MA Gibson, PR McClure, RG Sanchez Nuclear Technology 206 (sup1), S78-S88, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
Nuclear systems kilopower overview D Palac, M Gibson, L Mason, M Houts, P McClure, R Robinson Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space 2016, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
Mobile heat pipe cooled fast reactor system PR McClure, DD Dixon, DI Poston, RJ Kapernick, RS Reid, VR Dasari US Patent 10,643,756, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
KRUSTY experiment: Reactivity insertion accident analysis PR McClure, DI Poston, SD Clement, L Restrepo, R Miller, M Negrete Nuclear Technology 206 (sup1), S43-S55, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
The DUFF experiment-what was learned DI Poston, PR McClure, D Dixon, M Gibson Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space. Albuquerque: NETS paper 6967, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
White paper–use of LEU for a space reactor DI Poston, PR Mcclure Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States), 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
Experimental demonstration of a heat pipe–stirling engine nuclear reactor DI Poston, PR McClure, DD Dixon, MA Gibson, LS Mason Nuclear Technology 188 (3), 229-237, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
Design and testing of small nuclear reactors for defense and space applications P McClure, D Poston Invited Talk to ANS Trinity Section, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |