This system reimagines thermal management for radiation-hardened platforms by capturing heat from high-energy plasma interactions and converting it into usable electrical power. The design fuses thermoelectric conversion, shielding materials, and compact geometries to minimize footprint while maximizing survivability in extreme environments.

• ⚛️ Designed for space probes, SMR avionics, and autonomous fission systems
• 🧱 Combines radiation shielding layers with heat recovery pathways
• 🌡️ Thermoelectric modules harvest plasma-side waste heat
• 🛰️ Adaptable to both Earth-orbit and deep-space thermal loads

This subsystem was modeled to evaluate high-radiation heat environments — simulating neutron attenuation, shielding layers, and thermoelectric performance under plasma-based reactor and SMR scenarios. All thermal degradation profiles were built in ANSYS Fluent with supporting parametric assumptions.

• 🧊 Simulated heat flux + material degradation in embedded avionics
• 🛡️ Modeled neutron shielding with tungsten, BeO, and graphite layers
• 💡 Mapped thermal conduction paths to thermoelectric surfaces
• 🌀 Adapted Fluent profiles to mimic plasma-side thermal surges

This subsystem modeled shielding performance in high-radiation environments by simulating neutron attenuation, thermal degradation, and energy deposition across layered materials. These results informed component durability and energy recovery strategies for deep-space and SMR-scale systems.

• 🧪 Simulated neutron transport and gamma energy buildup using layered composite stacks
• 💠 Analyzed thermal degradation of shielded surfaces under directional flux
• 🔁 Connected neutron deposition zones to downstream heat reclamation pathways
• 🌌 Adapted shielding for space environments using Fluent + tabulated nuclear datasets

Compact geometries were modeled to redirect waste heat from neutron-exposed surfaces to downstream recovery units. Thermal paths were optimized for conductive efficiency, and shielding curvature was adjusted to balance mass and thermal survivability in space and SMR-scale propulsion platforms.

• 🌀 Modeled multi-layer heat spreaders to redirect residual flux into thermoelectric zones
• ♻️ Reused waste heat via finned enclosures and embedded channel geometries
• 📐 Optimized shielding curvature and thermal mass to reduce system weight
• 🚀 Designed for nuclear-electric propulsion and embedded avionics in high-radiation zones