caa a22 4500 475829220 CHVBK 20180406123837.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02673156 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02673156 "Romashka” reactor-converter [Elektronische Daten] [N. Ponomarev-Stepnoi, N. Kukharkin, V. Usov] On August 14, 1964, the "Romashka” reactor-converter—the world's first setup with direct (thermoelectric) conversion of heat from235U fission into electricity—was started up at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy and service-life nuclear tests were begun. In 1999, 35 years have passed since the "Romashka” reactor-converter was first started up and trials began. "Romashka” successfully operated for about 15000 hours and generated ∼6100 kW·h of electricity. The startup and successful tests of the "Romashka” reactor-converter recieved in its time high marks from the world scientific community and they demonstrated that the world's first operating nuclear reactor-converter, capable of generating electricity without the participation of any moving working bodies or mechanisms, was developed in the short time of about 3 years in the Soviet Union, and it was shown experimentally that the system was capable of prolonged operation. The technology created in the process of developing the "Romashka” reactor-converter and, specifically, the thermoelectric silicon-germanium transducers have found application in operating space nuclear (reactor and isotopic) power systems. 3 figures. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000 Ponomarev-Stepnoi N. aut Kukharkin N. aut Usov V. aut Atomic Energy Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 88/3(2000-03-01), 178-183 1063-4258 88:3<178 2000 88 10512 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02673156 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02673156 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ponomarev-Stepnoi N. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kukharkin N. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Usov V. aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Atomic Energy Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 88/3(2000-03-01), 178-183 1063-4258 88:3<178 2000 88 10512 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer