Kilopower is an experimental U.S. project to make new nuclear reactors for space travel. The project started in October 2015, led by NASA and the DoE’s...

2012 with the Demonstration Using Flattop Fission (DUFF) test of the Kilopower reactor. After a ground-based test of the experimental 1965 Romashka reactor...

marine high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (MGCR), as well as NASA's Kilopower nuclear reactor for space applications. BeO is carcinogenic in powdered...

of 2019, this project appears to have been superseded by Nasa's Kilopower. Kilopower Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program and SNAP-10A, that flew in...

electric currentPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology – NASA project aimed at producing a...

is a fast-neutron reactor with heat pipe cooling similar to the NASA Kilopower reactor. According to the designers, the reactor will have a "large negative...

spacecraft missions. A similar NASA project still under development, called Kilopower, also utilizes Stirling engines, but uses a small uranium fission reactor...

successfully demonstrated a kilowatt-scale microreactor based on its Kilopower technology. It is being developed for supporting human exploration of...

for materials and component research for future Chinese fast reactors. KiloPower/KRUSTY is a 1-10 kWe research sodium fast reactor built at Los Alamos...

early 2000s NASA study on nuclear electric spacecraft.[citation needed] Kilopower is the latest NASA reactor development program, but is intended for surface...

tested a new type of nuclear reactor called KRUSTY, which stands for "Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY", and which is designed to be able to...

fluoride from Earth to purify the necessary materials from regolith. The Kilopower nuclear fission system is being developed for reliable electric power...

demonstration test was being fabricated.[needs update] In 2017 NASA started the Kilopower project that tested the KRUSTY reactor. Japan has the RAPID-L conceptual...

SNAP-10A, that flew in 1965 Safe Affordable Fission Engine, a later project Kilopower, a later small space reactor Acronyms: SP-100 means Space reactor prototype...

RTG would be a small nuclear reactor powered by uranium, such as the Kilopower system in development as of 2019. The trajectory to Uranus would require...

et al. (19 August 2019). "A Kuiper Belt Object Orbiter Enabled By 10 kW Kilopower Electric Propulsion" (PDF). NASA NTRS. Archived (PDF) from the original...