ENGINEERING INVESTIGATION AND TESTS WHICH FURTHER SUBSTANTIATE SYSTEM FEASIBILITY AND PROVIDE DATA RELATIVE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NUCLEAR LOW ALTITUDE SUPERSONIC VEHICLE. PART II. TECHNICAL INFORMATION. VOLUME 9. NUCLEAR RADIATION EFFECTS TEST NO. 10 -- FLYAWAY.
Abstract
Presented in this document are the results of Nuclear Radiation Effects Test No. 10 which was conducted under the LASV-N2 Air Force Contract AF33(657)-12517. The irradiation was performed in the Air Force Ground Reactor during the period 25 February through 1 March 1964. A series of radar components, a secondary power unit, several flight test instrumentation sensors, several advanced computer components, and portions of a command control subsystem were exposed to nuclear radiation levels exceeding 5 x 10 to the 15th power fast neutrons/sq. cm and a gamma exposure of 5 x 10 to the 10th power ergs/gm(C). Dynamic test data recorded before, during, and after the irradiation are presented for magnetrons, high power metal-ceramic hydrogen thyratron tubes, pulse modulators, microwave ferrite devices, preamplifiers, a turbinegenerator unit, rate gyros, accelerometers, portions of a command control receiver and decoder, tunnel diodes, thin film parametron elements, and circuitrons. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0459593
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