If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal ...
A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...
more specifically into something called Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP). The concept requires a uranium nuclear core where atoms are split to release heat, and a fuel like liquid hydrogen ...