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... the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in its design, develop-ment, operation, and analysis of the KIWI-B4D nuclear rocket reactor experiment. This test provides good reason for confidence in the successful execution ...
... -4A nuclear reactor was "the culmination of seven previous tests-first begun in 1959. The Kiwi project has had as its basic objective the development of basic graphite nuclear rocket technology. With the completion of the Kiwi project , Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory will be directing its future nuclear rocket efforts to development ...
... ) stage and deferring flight objectives of Nerva ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application ). Rover's Kiwi ground reactor program was unchanged. Work towards development of flight systems was deferred until technology learned from Kiwi and Nerva is "satisfactorily established." Revision was expected to save as much as $180 million ...
... Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory had successfully completed a major cold-flow test series on the Kiwi B-4D-CF reactor. The experiments were designed to verify design changes incorporated in the basic Kiwi B-4 reactor to prevent flow-induced vibrations under nonpower producing conditions. No vibrations were ...
... , NYT, 5/14/64,18)''
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory successfully operated a Kiwi B-4 reactor, designated the Kiwi B-4D, at near full design power for approximately one minute, at Jackass ...
... Propulsion Office and Director of NASA Nuclear Systems and Space Power, said that in the Kiwi B-4D reactor test last May 13 the "planned power and temperature of the reactor ... exceeded. . . . Also, there were no flashes in the jet as had been experienced in the Kiwi B-4A reactor test in November 1962, none of the vibrations that had caused damage ...
... Release 64-214)''
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory successfully completed eight-minute power experiment with the Kiwi-B4E reactor, the eighth and final reactor built for power testing under the Kiwi phase of the NASA-AEC nuclear rocket program. All planned test objectives were met and ...
... Kiwi B-4E reactor, operated at nearly full power for eight minutes Aug. 28, was restarted ... early 1970s and have an operational system by 1975." Test marked final one planned for Kiwi. ''(SNPO; Wash. Eve. Star, 9/15/64)''
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center officials successfully made ...
... Kiwi-TNT (Transient Nuclear Test) was successfully completed at Jackass Flats, Nev . This was a safety ... behavior were accurate; and (4) cleaning up radioactivity at the site was easier than expected. Kiwi ground-test version of a nuclear-reactor rocket engine was a NASA-AEC project. ''(UPI ...
... -yr, effort reached new levels of attainment in 1964-65, with successful tests of the Kiwi -B-4E and NRX-A2 reactors, and initial strides in the more advanced Phoebus reactor program, "The entire operations of both Kiwi -B-4E and NRX-A2 gave very close to the desired results and met or ...
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