Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

The company has successfully trialed a nuclear fuel that could one day drastically cut down the travel time to Mars and ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

A nuclear thermal rocket could potentially achieve double or triple ... A cold flow ground test of the reactor is planned for 2025 by Lockheed Martin and BWXT. The program’s design phase started two ...

Westinghouse Electric Company and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) today announced the successful demonstration of a new ...

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

General Atomics has completed several key tests for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) reactor technology at NASA’s MSFC.

A new 1 megawatt thermal nuclear molten salt reactor will be built in 2026 and will be lowered into a cement encased trench in a new building in Texas. Rusty Towell of Nature Energy showed the new ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory is advancing next-generation nuclear energy through ...

Following the company's announcement of a license deal to develop carbon fiber cathode applications for nuclear reactor ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...