NASA Forges Ahead With Space Nuclear Propulsion Concept Studies

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Visionary view of a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) enabled spacecraft mission outward bound.
Credit: NASA
NASA, working in concert with the Department of Energy (DOE), has selected three reactor design concepts for space nuclear propulsion systems using high-assay, low-enriched uranium fuel. The contracts to be awarded through the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) are each valued at about $5 million...

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