NSPWG-recommended safety requirements and guidelines for SEI nuclear propulsionAn interagency Nuclear Safety Policy Working Group (NSPWG) was chartered to recommend nuclear safety policy, requirements, and guidelines for the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) nuclear propulsion program to facilitate the implementation of mission planning and conceptual design studies. The NSPWG developed a top-level policy to provide the guiding principles for the development and implementation of the nuclear propulsion safety program and the development of safety functional requirements. In addition, the NSPWG reviewed safety issues for nuclear propulsion and recommended top-level safety requirements and guidelines to address these issues. Safety requirements were developed for reactor start-up, inadvertent criticality, radiological release and exposure, disposal, entry, and safeguards. Guidelines were recommended for risk/reliability, operational safety, flight trajectory and mission abort, space debris and meteoroids, and ground test safety. In this paper the specific requirements and guidelines will be discussed.
Document ID
19920071503
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Marshall, Albert C. (Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Sawyer, J. C., Jr. (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Bari, Robert A. (Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY, United States)
Brown, Neil W. (General Electric Co. San Jose, CA, United States)
Cullingford, Hatice S. (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Hardy, Alva C. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Lee, James H. (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Mcculloch, William H. (Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM, United States)
Niederauer, George F. (Los Alamos National Laboratory NM, United States)
Remp, Kerry (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)