A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...

Read about the new fuel coating technique being developed by ORNL to shield nuclear thermal propulsion system components from ...

British startup Pulsar Fusion has unveiled Sunbird, a space rocket concept designed to meet spacecraft in orbit, attach to ...

Testing materials at exceptionally high temperatures is a first and a crucial step toward helping NASA mature and qualify ...

US Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a new high-temperature testbed to advance research on nuclear thermal ...

BWXT is also part of a joint venture selected in 2023 to deliver the fuel and reactor for the DARPA DRACO programme to develop a nuclear thermal rocket engine for an in-space demonstration. The ...

In 2023, BWXT was selected, as part of a joint venture, to deliver the fuel and reactor for the DARPA DRACO program, a partnership between DARPA and NASA to develop a nuclear thermal rocket engine ...

Hydrogen's role as a clean energy source is expanding, driving demand for accurate flow measurement in diverse applications ...

Strikes against energy facilities have been a key part of both Russia and Ukraine's efforts to weaken the other, but a 30-day ...

it is one element," he told ABC News Breakfast. Prior to Russia's 2022 invasion, Ukraine had surplus power. It was producing 44.1 gigawatts of available electricity through its nuclear, thermal ...

The project’s goal is to design and demonstrate the world’s first in-orbit nuclear thermal rocket ... Space Command rocket. BWX Technologies (BWXT) will develop the nuclear reactor and produce the ...