OUR Chinese Academy of Sciences develops nuclear reactor for use in space flights. According to Chinese media, Ministry of Science and Technology of China is already in the final stages of performance evaluation. However, publications about reactor were removed from these vehicles, which should indicate censorship rather than a media error.

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Nuclear reactor for space flight

Development nuclear reactor launched in 2019 and is capable of producing up to one megawatt (MW) of energy. This energy intensity is much greater than that required to maintain international space station (ISS) works – it’s somewhere between 84 kilowatts and 120 kilowatts.

Reason for Chinese Academy of Sciences develop nuclear reactor was a request from Wu Weiren, director of the Tiandu Deep Space Research Laboratory, for technological innovation in nuclear power for future space flights. This new reactor can be used even in Tiangong, Chinese space station. The ten years planned for a mission can be extended using nuclear power.

OUR nuclear power could also be used in probes that will explore places far from Earth, such as China’s Voyager, a probe that will reach interstellar space, or a future Chinese space mission to study Neptune, the most distant planet from Earth. Sun (sorry, Pluto). China is not alone in considering this type of energy for long-term space missions. The US plans to develop reactors for colonizing the moon.

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OUR NASA announced on 21 June that Westinghouse, IX and Lockheed Martin (an old acquaintance of the agency) won a tender for a project to deliver nuclear power to the moon. Three companies will have to develop a concept that meets the objectives of the US space agency. The winners each won $5 million to develop a nuclear fission system that would power moon bases and eventually be adapted for manned missions to Mars.

The three companies will have to develop a reactor system that will produce 40 kilowatts of power and last at least 10 years on the lunar surface. OUR NASA hopes to test these systems on the Moon by the end of the decade. And, of course, there will probably not be a single reactor on the satellite. “Developing these early designs will help us lay the groundwork for our long-term presence on other worlds,” said Jim Reiter, Associate Administrator of the Space Technologies Mission Directorate. NASA. OUR Lockheed Martin also develops projects of atomic spacecraft for DARPA and the US Department of Defense.

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Source: Tweek Town

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