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Preliminary Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) reliability study

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A preliminary failure mode, failure effect, and criticality analysis of the major subsystems of nuclear electric propulsion is presented. Simplified reliability block diagrams are also given. A computer program was used to calculate the reliability of the heat rejection subsystem.

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Hsieh, T. M., Nakashima, A. M., Mondt, J. F.. 1973-07-01. Preliminary Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) reliability study. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19730017944

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