[NIAC 2023] Fusion Reactor To Melt Through Europa's Ice
Universe Today Podcast
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The Future of Nuclear Propulsion
NASA is looking at nuclear thermal propulsion. The idea is you get twice what we refer to as impulse seconds, maybe three times over chemical rockets. We currently use this as solar electric propulsion on a variety of spacecraft that are exploring more or less out as far as Jupiter. So if you can have a compact nuclear source, you can use that to essentially electrify grids and send xenon or mercury out the back end of the spacecraft.
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