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Title	Review of liquid metal heat pipe work at Los Alamos
Creator/Author	Reid, R.S. ; Merrigan, M.A. ; Sena, J.T.
Publication Date	1990 Jan 01
OSTI Identifier	OSTI ID: 6400606; Legacy ID: DE91004822
Report Number(s)	LA-UR-90-3721; CONF-910116--10
DOE Contract Number	W-7405-ENG-36
Other Number(s)	Other: ON: DE91004822
Resource Type	Conference
Specific Type	Technical Report
Resource Relation	Conference: 8. symposium on space nuclear power systems, Albuquerque, NM (USA), 6-10 Jan 1991
Research Org	Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
Sponsoring Org	DOE/NE
Subject	21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; HEAT PIPES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; SPACE POWER REACTORS; AIRFOILS; COOLING; CORROSION; HYPERSONIC FLOW; LIQUID METALS; LOS ALAMOS; SERVICE LIFE; SPACE VEHICLES; THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT; THERMIONIC REACTORS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELEMENTS; EQUIPMENT; FEDERAL REGION VI; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDS; LIQUIDS; METALS; MOBILE REACTORS; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; USA; VEHICLES
Description/Abstract	A survey of space-power related liquid metal heat pipe work at Los Alamos National Laboratory is presented. Heat pipe development at Los Alamos has been on-going since 1963. Heat pipes were initially developed for thermionic nuclear-electrical power production in space. Since then Los Alamos has developed liquid metal heat pipes for numerous applications related to high temperature systems in both the space and terrestrial environments. Some of these applications include thermionic electrical generators, thermoelectric energy conversion (both in-core and direct radiation), thermal energy storage, hypersonic vehicle leading edge cooling, and heat pipe vapor laser cells. Some of the work performed at Los Alamos has been documented in internal reports that are often little-known. A representative description and summary of progress in space-related liquid metal heat pipe technology is provided followed by a reference section citing sources where these works may be found. 53 refs.
Country of Publication	United States
Language	English
Format	Size: Pages: (11 p)
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