US military space reactor nears orbit after 60 years in $161M deal
The US has not operated a nuclear reactor in space since 1965. Antares now wants to change that…
A 17-year-old student proposed a hybrid nuclear energy system that could reduce an Antarctic base’s carbon emissions by 3,254 tons annually
Image Credit: Cooperativa Ciencia A 17-year-old Chilean high school student, María Javiera Valenzuela, is drawing attention for proposing…
US firms to trial nuclear reactor aboard satellite for space travel
Texas-based Space Ocean Corporation has entered into an agreement with Space Nuclear Power Corporation to test the latter’s…
Physics code lets nuclear microreactors adjust power automatically
Scientists in the United States have come up with a physics-based algorithm that could one day make it…