New small fission reactor for deep-space missions demonstrated

jueves, 29 de noviembre de 2012

New small fission reactor for deep-space missions demonstrated:
Artists concept of spacecraft using the Los Alamos reactor
Exploring the regions of deep space beyond Mars means sending probes where solar power isn’t practical. Since the 1960s, NASA has equipped its Apollo missions and unmanned explorers with Radioisotope Thermal Generators (RTGs). These have worked very well, but they run on plutonium 238, which is currently in short supply. Therefore, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a new small nuclear reactor for spacecraft that uses uranium instead of plutonium to power Stirling engines and generate electricity...
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