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 Future of Radio Isotope Systems
NTP and NEP use low enriched uranium or to be more precise high assay low enriched uranium halo it's called, which is about you know 19 ish percent enrichment. So that's for for the propulsion ones and then in terms of fuel sources. Are you also exploring alternative radio isotopes for you know kind of the battery pack version or the terrestrial. I don't really know what you call that if there is a term term of art for for base moon base applications.
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