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NASA's Compact Nuclear Reactors Could Power Colonies On Mars
BBC Knowledge
|April 2018
IF humans are ever to build colonies on the Moon or on Mars, we are going to need a reliable way of powering essentials such as lighting, water and oxygen supply – not to mention a means of producing fuel for the long schlep home.
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Enter Kilopower, NASA’s pioneering compact nuclear fission reactor currently being put through its paces at the space agency’s Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
The prototype power system was designed and developed by NASA’s Glenn Research Center in collaboration with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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