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The TOPAZ nuclear reactor is a lightweight nuclear reactor developed for long term space use by the Soviet Union. Cooled by liquid metal, it uses a high-temperature...

USSR sent about 40 nuclear-electric satellites into space, mostly powered by the BES-5 reactor. The more powerful TOPAZ-II reactor produced 10 kilowatts...

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. Nuclear reactors are used at...

motor yacht constructed by Lürssen in 2012 TOPAZ nuclear reactor, a series of lightweight nuclear reactors flown in space by the Soviet Union and the...

TOPAZ may refer to: TOPAZ nuclear reactor, a nuclear reactor developed in the Soviet Union TOPAZ (think tank), an organisation of the Czech Republic Topaz...

radar unit. In addition, in 1987 the Soviets launched two larger TOPAZ nuclear reactors (six kilowatts) in Kosmos satellites (Kosmos 1818 and Kosmos 1867)...

remains in low Earth orbit.[citation needed] Romashka reactor SNAP-10A TOPAZ nuclear reactor List of nuclear power systems in space Special illustrated presentation...

900 °C; 3,452 °F).The reactor operated for 15000 hrs. BES-5 reactor List of nuclear power systems in space SNAP-10A TOPAZ nuclear reactor Ponomarev-Stepnoi...

flight. Some smaller reactors, such as the TOPAZ nuclear reactor, are built to minimize moving parts and use methods that convert nuclear energy to electricity...

of all the nuclear fission-based nuclear research reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. Some "research" reactors were built...

thruster Space fission reactors Project Prometheus Safe Affordable Fission Engine Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power TOPAZ nuclear reactor Ad Astra Rocket Company...

the Shuttle OMS engines for chemical propulsion and powered by a TOPAZ nuclear reactor), using habitat modules from the mothballed International Space...

Beech nuclear reactor and TOPAZ nuclear reactor; naval lead-bismuth liquid metal reactors: VT-1 reactor, BM-40A reactor, OK-550 reactorl mobile nuclear power...

RORSAT; and TOPAZ. Plans to develop a megawatt-scale nuclear reactor for the use aboard a crewed spaceship were announced in 2009 by Russian nuclear Kurchatov...

titanium for the nuclear, chemical, and electronic industries. It was one of the main developers of the Topaz-2 satellite nuclear power reactor and is developing...

process, widely practiced in jewelry industry, is done in either a nuclear reactor for neutron bombardment, a particle accelerator for electron bombard­ment...

This list of nuclear power systems in space includes 83 nuclear power systems that were flown to space, or at least launched in an attempt to reach space...

spacecraft Kosmos 1818 - first RORSAT with Topaz-1 nuclear reactor Kosmos 1867 - second RORSAT with Topaz-1 nuclear reactor Kosmos 1870 - uncrewed flight of Almaz...

life of about five to six months. The satellite was powered by a TOPAZ 1 nuclear reactor. This was cooled by liquid sodium-potassium, NaK, metal, it used...

thermal-spectrum nuclear reactors such as the TRIGA research reactor developed by General Atomics or the Soviet TOPAZ nuclear reactors. At neutron energies...