Nuclear energy’s potential can be viewed as two stories: nuclear for ships and nuclear for future fuels. Both offer a wealth ...
The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...
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NASA's lunar nuclear reactor design has major flaw, claim China's scientistsChinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...
China has made a significant breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, achieving record temperatures in its EAST experiment, ...
A UK startup has unveiled a new fusion-powered space rocket concept called Sunbird for interplanetary travel to Mars — and ...
Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...
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Nuclear Fusion: Is It the Key to Solving the Energy Crisis?While nuclear fission breaks heavy atoms into smaller ones ... exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the core of the sun, to overcome the repulsive forces between atomic nuclei.
In nuclear fission, atoms such as U-235 or Pu-239 split ... molten salt reactors are designed to drain their fuel from the core to a containment vessel below through gravity alone, requiring ...
There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR ... might be a misnomer—Zubrin could be describing a rapid, sustained fission process that’s more energetic than a ...
Reports suggest the justices are favoring Texas, though a ruling in the state’s favor could counter its recent efforts at ...
On Dec. 12, 1952, the world witnessed its first-ever nuclear reactor accident at Chalk River Laboratories right here in ...
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