Questions tagged [ultra-safe-nuclear-technologies]
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What is the relationship (if any) between NASA's Kilopower project and its request for 40 kW reactor designs?
Gizmodo's NASA Wants to Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon begins
NASA is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop a non-solar power source on the Moon by ...
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Are nuclear thermal engine designs limited to about twice the Isp of existing chemical rocket engines? If so, why; what's the limiting factor?
Discussion below With Ultra Safe Nuclear engines and hydrogen propellant, how far to Mars could you get and still be able to return to Earth in an emergency? including a comment that suggests that the ...
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With Ultra Safe Nuclear engines and hydrogen propellant, how far to Mars could you get and still be able to return to Earth in an emergency?
The NPR news item (audio + transcript) Could Nuclear Power Aid In Travel To Mars? contains the following:
VISHAL PATEL: If you want to go to Mars, nuclear is a smart choice.
BRUMFIEL: Vishal Patel is ...
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Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) has delivered a design concept to NASA, but what does NASA consider a "design concept" to be?
The 19-Oct-2020 Press Release Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies Delivers Advanced Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Design To NASA begins:
SEATTLE, Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultra Safe Nuclear ...
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