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RECENTLY, Carpenter, Denfeld and Kronlund1 estimated that the gamma-rays from a 1 MW (thermal) nuclear reactor operated in space could produce about 5 × 1012 electrons/sec by Compton scattering in the spherical shell of a large heat radiator placed around the reactor; a reactor of radius 0.3 m inside a shell of radius 3.1 m was taken as a possible arrangement. They suggested that these electrons would produce on the shell a positive potential of some 0.8 MV which might affect certain experiments.
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Carpenter, D. G., Denfeld, R. E., and Kronlund, K. H., Nature, 209, 64 (1966).
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SAYERS, J., WALKER, J. Nuclear Reactor Operation in Space. Nature 211, 60 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211060a0
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