The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...
Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.
Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...
A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...
General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.
General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.
American company General Atomics announced it completed a series of test on a nuclear fuel designed for the Nuclear Thermal ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...
A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...
China’s outlined a buildout of nuclear power in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025 ... 700 °C operating temperature, 60 MW thermal output, and an experimental supercritical carbon dioxide-based closed ...
In other words, it’s engineering time. As engineers who have been working on fundamental science and applied engineering in nuclear fusion for decades, we’ve seen much of the science and ...