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NASA Testing Suitcase-Sized Nukes To Power Colonies On Remote Planets

NASA Testing Suitcase-Sized Nukes To Power Colonies On Remote Planets

2011-08-31
Source: TPM


NASA is developing a mini nuclear power-generating plant that is the size of a suitcase, says a research scientist involved in leading the project on behalf of NASA and the Department of Energy.

The compact fission technology for surface power applications would be used by colonists or unmanned missions to the moon, or Mars -- or any place else NASA decides to send a spaceship that can't rely on the sun for power.

James Werner, who manages reactor technologies for the Space Nuclear Systems division at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory, described the new system Sunday at the 242nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Denver.

Describing the new technology at the conference, Werner said: "People would never recognize the fission power system as a nuclear power reactor. The reactor itself may be about 1-1/2 feet wide by 2-1/2 feet high, about the size of a carry-on suitcase. There are no cooling towers."

The system would provide energy for outposts or colonies on land where solar power is impractical....





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