[NIAC 2023] Fusion Reactor To Melt Through Europa's Ice
Universe Today Podcast
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The Future of Nuclear Propulsion
In principle, it's the same problem that conventional reactors have, except that we're making up for the neutrons. The question is how hot can we get before we start losing the fuel within the reactor itself? So it might be that we are better than chemical, but not as good as that. And so, like I know with that, the bimodal, that the hybrid nuclear propulsion system, and I haven't had a chance to interview them yet, I don't know if I will.
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