NTP Lightning Talks

Sintering Behavior of Transition Metal Tetra-Carbides for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

1:00–1:06PM EDT

Timothy Stack (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN), Keaton McNulty (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN), Ethan C. Payne (Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN), Steven J. Zinkle (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

Thermal Hydraulics Simulations of the XE-Prime Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) Engine using Flownex

1:06–1:12PM EDT

Miles Adkins (PADT Inc), Thomas Chadwick (PADT Inc)

TiC Precipitate Effects on the Thermal Conductivity and Fracture Toughness of Ti-Containing Tri-Carbides

1:12–1:18PM EDT

Keaton McNulty (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Timothy Stack, Ethan C. Payne, Steven J. Zinkle (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

Analysis of Thermophysical Properties of Fuels for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

1:18–1:24PM EDT

Hanshu Kotta (The Ohio State University), Saqeeb Adnan (The Ohio State University), Marat Khafizov (The Ohio State University)

Kinetic and reactor modeling of hydrogen-graphite interactions under nuclear thermal propulsion conditions

1:24–1:30PM EDT

Thomas Westenhofer (University of California, Irvine), Xian Shi (University of California, Irvine)

Ion Beam Irradiation Tolerance of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Carbides for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

1:30–1:36PM EDT

Ethan C. Payne (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven J. Zinkle (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

Multiphysics modeling of hydrogen transport in space nuclear systems with FESTIM

1:36–1:42PM EDT

Chirag Khurana (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), Huihua N. Yang (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), Kaelyn Dunnell (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), James Dark (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center), Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)

Graphene-Copper Hybrid Thermal Straps

1:42–1:48PM EDT

Timothy D. Hall (Faraday Technology Inc.), Nicholas Roberts (Utah State University), Nicholas Roberts (Utah State University), Dan Wang (Faraday Technology Inc.), Maria Inman (Faraday Technology Inc.), Houng Le (Faraday Technology Inc.)

Preliminary Investigation into Fissile Plasma Simulation for Gas Core Nuclear Power

1:48–1:54PM EDT

Eleni T. Mowery (The University of Michigan), John E. Foster (University of Michigan)