A NUCLEAR-THERMIONIC FUEL ELEMENT TEST**Presented at the ARS Space Power Systems Conference, The Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, California, September 27–30, 1960

Materials Problems in Cesium Thermionic Converters

“…In A p r i l 1960, an i n -p i l e test of a cesium t h e r mionic c o n v e r t e r was carried out in the G e n e r a l Atomic T R I G A reactor (10). One of the m a j o r objectives of such a test was to l e a r n the v a r i o u s m a t e r i a l s p r o b l e m s associated w i t h cesium t h e r mionic c o n v e r t e r s for fission-heat conversion.…”