SBIR/STTR Research Award
PRESENT ISOTOPIC HEAT SOURCES FOR RADIOSCOPE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS HAVE POTENIALLY SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH TOXICITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
Award amount
$54,232Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1983Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- Boyd Lancaster, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- HUT3XNPLRL77
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
PRESENT ISOTOPIC HEAT SOURCES FOR RADIOSCOPE THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS HAVE POTENIALLY SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH TOXICITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. IT IS DESIRED TO IDENTIFY ALTERNATIVE ISOTOPIC FUELS THAT DO NOT HAVE THESE PROBLEMS. THE PROPOSEDPROGRAM INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNIQUE FOR CONSTANT INPUT POWER AND TEMPERATURE TO THERMOELECTRIC CONVERTERS THROUGH SEVERAL ISOTOPE HALF LIVES. THIS WILL PERMIT THE USE OF NON-WEAPONS GRADE ISOTOPES WITH TOXICITIESAS MUCH AS 10,000 TIMES LESS THAN PU238.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Additive Manufacturing of Heat Pipe Wicks
- Radar/EW Aperture Cold Plate Innovation for Increased Thermal Performance
- Innovative Heat Sink Technology for Application to Aircraft Systems
- Radar/EW Aperture Cold Plate Innovation for Increased Thermal Performance
- Durable Solution for Compressor Airfoil Leading Edges in Gas Turbine Engines
Research funding history
137 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2014). Reported award amounts total $29,166,147. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation