
Ep 399: Bhavya Lal - Associate Admin for Technology, Policy & Strategy, NASA
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy
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The Private Sector's Investment in Space
The private sector has always supported government investment in space nuclear, but exclusively in a contracting role. Many of these companies are interested in doing things on the moon. They understand that if you want to extract resources from the moon, for example, there is need for powerThat goes beyond solar and chemical batteries. And they're actually hoping that they would have customers that aren't just NASA or the government,. But also other private companies that want to do some of these extraction.
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