MIT Technology Review

NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...
SpaceNews

The space nuclear power bottleneck — and how to fix it

Lockheed Martin's concept for a fission surface power (FSP) system on the surface of the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin No technology holds more transformative potential for America’s space aspirations ...
MIT Technology Review

How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century blueprint

From molten salt to TRISO fuel, here’s how technological advancements could upend an old power technology. Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive ...
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US revives push for nuclear power systems for space missions

The last time a nuclear reactor operated in space, Richard Nixon was president. That was the SNAP-10A, a small experimental ...