NASA renews its hype about nuclear reactors on Mars

NASA demos little nuclear power plant to help find little green men, Kilopower experiment looks good for 10 kilowatts on the Moon, Mars or beyond By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor 3 May 2018 NASA has announced successful tests of a small fission reactor capable of producing about 10 kilowatts of power, and hopes the technology will prove suitable for use on the Moon or Mars.

…… The reactor is not yet flight-ready and will need lots of testing to get it there, not least because people tend to be nervous about large chunks of fissile material on rockets. There’s also the small matter of vacuum testing……https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/03/nasa_kilopower_reactor_using_stirling_technology/

May 4, 2018 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News

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