FTA: “First, electric thrusters have always been used to drive small, unmanned spacecraft. Scaling them up to accommodate the thousands of megawatts generated b

FTA: “First, electric thrusters have always been used to drive small, unmanned spacecraft. Scaling them up to accommodate the thousands of megawatts generated by nuclear reactors would require huge spaceships.” The largest nuclear power plant in the world is (or was; Wikipedia doesn’t have data for 2022 and later, but it doesn’t seem to be operational) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwazaki-Kariwa_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwazaki-Kariwa_Nuclear_Pow.... It can produce less than 8GW, and needs seven reactors to do that. So, that probably would make this the largest nuclear reactor ever built. I can see why the article also says “But this idea won’t be tested on DRACO”.