On the Response of the Ulysses RTG to the Impact of Large SRM-Fragments

Presented at the Seventh Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems in Albuquerque, NM, January 7-11, 1990. It will be shown that end-on impacts, which are more likely to occur with Ulysses than with Galileo, will produce greater average fueled clad distortion than was typical of Galileo. Fortunately, the predicted distortions remain well within the Galileo database. It will also be shown that the 2-dimensional calculations which were performed for the Galileo configuration were indeed valid in that application and are also valid for the Ulysses configuration. There are three copies in the file.