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Nuclear Rocket Fuel Test Success Paves the Way for Faster Space Travel
While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.
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Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing the reactors that would power them isn’t easy
But these rockets must carry oxygen with them into ... The uranium-236 then splits into two fragments – the fission products – and the reaction emits some assorted particles.