Re: Heat Load Factors Table

["Michael P. Grissom" <MIKEG%SLACVM.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>]

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1.  This is what I would have guessed:  Information necessary to assess
cooling requirements for spent fuel rods for example (decay heat).
However, it seems to me that the nuclear "battery" folks, especially
using high specific activity materials, had to worry about this too.
In fact, maximizing heat production for space heaters (warm instruments
in space probes of various kinds) was a goal of at least some of these
projects.  You could get back to the SNAP technologies issues with
this!
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Subject: Re: Heat Load Factors Table
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	Thank you, heat load factor is not one with which I'm familiar either!

	According to the note beneath this single table,

	"In the previous table the heat load contribution from
	 beta-gamma activity is calculated by multiplying the curies of fission
	products by 0.025 Btu/hr/Ci."

	There are 2 footnotes for the calculation of 238Pu  and 241Pu
calculations, but no other ident