Overview of Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems; For the Staff of E. Fenton Carey, Special Assistant to the Secretary for Space Programs
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Special Applications, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 55 sheets, with information and images (illustrations) on one side only. Staple bound in upper right corner. This briefing was presented on June 28, 1991. Rare surviving of program briefing. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect. This generator has no moving parts. RTGs have been used as power sources in satellites, space probes, and unmanned remote facilities such as a series of lighthouses built by the former Soviet Union inside the Arctic Circle. RTGs are usually the most desirable power source for unmaintained situations that need a few hundred watts (or less) of power for durations too long for fuel cells, batteries, or generators to provide economically, and in places where solar cells are not practical. Safe use of RTGs requires containment of the radioisotopes long after the productive life of the unit. Dr. Carey has over thirty-five years of experience as a naval officer, government senior executive, and consultant. He is currently spearheading an initiative to create a China – U.S. Executive Leadership Program that will demonstrate that the two nations can work together to solve problems of common concern. He has been a National policy maker for the White House; the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry; U.S. Council on Competitiveness; the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, and Transportation; the Chief of Naval Operations; and the NASA Administrator. He has been a Strategic planner for the White House National Science and Technology Council, the U.S. Departments of the Navy and Transportation, and the FAA; and he has been a Program manager in the U.S. Department of Navy for space and mission planning systems and in the U.S. Departments of Energy and Transportation for energy, environmental, and transportation research and development. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Radioisotope Power Systems, Cassini Mission, NASA, Plutonium-238, Space Nuclear Power, CRAF, SNAP, MHW, GPHS, Solar Probe, Mars Rover, Orbiter, Voyager 1, Galileo, Ulysses Spacecraft, Satellite, Space Exploration, General Purpose Heat Source, Fuel Pe
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