[1I01-04] Innovative Reactor Development

[1I03] Study on Application of Reprocessed Pu to Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactors

*Masaki Okagaki¹, Cassiano R. E. De Oliveira², Patrick J. McDaniel², Willem F. G. Van Rooijen¹ (1. Univ. of Fukui, 2. UNM)

Keywords:Nuclear Thermal Rocket, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion, SULEU, Reprocessed Pu

To realize a human exploration beyond the moon, propulsion system has a big role. Nuclear thermal rocket propulsion has expected to use in those programs, because chemical rockets are not enough to execute it. Nowadays, research on nuclear thermal rocket propulsion is evolved mainly in US. We have analyzed performance of several models that added reprocessed Pu to U fuel to improve those models on this research. SCALE code system had used to analyze those models.