Nuclear Reactors 659 - New NASA Budget Provides One Hundred Million Dollars For The Development Of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

Nuclear_thermal_rocket_en.svg_.png

Caption: 
Artist’s concept of nuclear thermal rocket engine

       I have written before about the possibility of using nuclear power to propel spacecraft. This idea has been around for decades but despite success in designs and testing of nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system it was abandoned as interest in space exploration waned in the early 1970s.

Nuclear Fusion 57 - European Researchers Apply Dual Imaging Method To Components For Fusion Reactors

       If we can harness the power of nuclear fusion, it will solve a lot of the world’s energy problems. The Sun runs on nuclear fusion but in order to create fusion on Earth, it is necessary to create even higher temperatures and pressures than those in the center of the Sun. One of the critical problems that has to be dealt with is engineering components that can hold up to these extreme conditions. 

Nuclear Fusion 56 - CTFusion In Seattle, Washington Is Working On A DoE Grant To Create A Commercial Fusion Reactor

         CTFusion is a startup company in Seattle, Washington that was created in 2015 to commercialize fusion research at the University of Washington. It builds on almost thirty years of research and development at the U of W Helicity Injected Torus - Steady Inductive laboratory funded by U.S.

Pages