Oct 17, 2024 | Featured, Nuclear, Space
This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and...
Mar 28, 2024 | Featured, Michigan, Nuclear
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm toured the Holtec Palisades Training Center on Thursday before announcing the federal government’s commitment to offer a $1.5 billion conditional loan to restart the Palisades nuclear plant. ...
Jul 27, 2023 | Nuclear, Space
NASA and the U.S. military plan to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Earth orbit in late 2025 or early 2026. The project, known as DRACO (“Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations”), aims to give an in-space test to nuclear thermal...
Feb 9, 2023 | Nuclear, Power
If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one-hundredth the electricity and can even be...
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