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Not a great headline; fission reactors have been critical part of the Mars Design Reference Mission architecture for the last quarter-century. The news seems to
by pheldagryph 9y ago
Not a great headline; fission reactors have been critical part of the Mars Design Reference Mission architecture for the last quarter-century. The news seems to be that NASA is starting to test prototypes (which is definitely still cool).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Design_Reference_Mission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Design_Reference_Mission
MDRM 5.0 PDF (big file; power generation is 7.3.4, page PDF-pg#85):
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/373665main_NASA-SP-2009-566.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/373665main_NASA-SP-2009-566.pdf