When Fake Nuclear Disaster Fallout Reached Los Angeles

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
New Atlas

New fuel withstands nuclear thermal propulsion reactor conditions

The fuel was subjected to full reactor heat and hydrogen gas and kept there for 20 minutes – about what a nuclear engine would have to endure during a boost maneuver. Other tests looked at how the ...
The Hill

Will the NASA-DARPA nuclear engine test cause environmental protests?

The recent news that NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are teaming up to build a nuclear thermal propulsion rocket and test it in 2027 was welcomed by advocates of space ...
BGR

New Pulsar Fusion Nuclear Rocket Engine Could Revolutionize Space Travel

A groundbreaking nuclear rocket engine that could completely change how we conduct long distance space missions is now under construction. The Pulsar Fusion rocket could more than halve the time it ...
The Motley Fool

Lockheed and BWXT Win $500 Million to Build a Nuclear Rocket Engine

It's a brave new world for nuclear power -- in space. Two years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) set out to go where no man has gone before -- and more specifically, to go ...
techtimes

Pulsar Fusion's Nuclear-Powered Space Engine Can Bring Humans Out of the Solar System, Gets UKSA Funding

Pulsar Fusion may be a new name in the space race, but they are one of the most famous companies now for getting funding from the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) for its novel development. The ...
Gizmodo

Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engine Could Power Quick Trips to the Moon and Mars

The company's prototype is a smaller version of the nuclear reactor it's hoping to send to the Moon by 2029. Reading time 2 minutes Rolls-Royce Holdings is getting into the spaceflight industry. The ...
autoevolution

Nuclear Engines for B-52s: A Long-Forgotten Bonkers DOD Program That Nearly Happened

You might think the bloggers and YouTubers of the world have already found and profiled every neat or obscure project for a military aircraft that never left the drawing board. But every once in a ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

NASA announces plan to test nuclear rocket engine for possible Mars mission

A mission to Mars could soon be on the horizon for NASA. The agency is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space for a ...
Business Wire

BWXT to Provide Nuclear Reactor Engine and Fuel for DARPA Space Project

LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced that its reactor and fuel will be key components in the world’s first demonstration spacecraft using nuclear ...
7News Miami

NASA to test nuclear thermal rocket engine for the first time in 50 years

(CNN) — A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the US Department of Defense, and NASA ...