Novel nuclear rocket fuel test could accelerate NASA's Mars mission
A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, joined by university students, recently traveled to The ...
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Nuclear Rocket Fuel Test Success Paves the Way for Faster Space Travel
This latest batch of tests was conducted at the compact fuel element environmental test ... in 2023 that they were working on a nuclear thermal rocket engine, with a planned launch demonstration ...
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New nuclear fuel withstands 4,220°F heat, will fly rockets to Mars in just 45 days
The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system, a type of nuclear rocket. According to ... the first company to use the compact fuel element environmental test (CFEET) facility ...
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Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket Design
A nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket. A conservative design for the rocket would be fueled by salts of 20 percent enriched uranium or plutonium. The ...
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Taming a temperamental rocket fuel
Boron is the fifth lightest element, has a high intrinsic energy density, and is cheap, abundant and stable — making it of interest as a solid rocket fuel and as an additive to jet fuels to ...
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BWXT Launches Innovation Campus to Speed Development of Advanced Nuclear Technologies
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 ...