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2. Laser Inertial Fusion Energy - Wikipedia

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   LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013. LIFE aimed to develop the technologies necessary to convert the laser-driven inertial confinement fusion concept being developed in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) into a practical commercial power ...

3. Cosmic ray spallation - Wikipedia

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   In contrast, the radioactive nuclide beryllium-7 falls into the same light element range but has a half-life too short for it to have been formed before the formation of the Solar System, so that it cannot be a primordial nuclide. Since the cosmic ray spallation route is the most likely source of beryllium-7 in the environment, that isotope is ...

4. Nuclear power in space - Wikipedia

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   Nuclear Power in Space - Office of Nuclear Energy - U.S. Department of Energy(.pdf) SAFE-400 paper (fission reactor) Design Concept for a Nuclear Reactor-Powered Mars Rover; David Poston, "Space Nuclear Power: Fission Reactors" Design and Testing of Small Nuclear (.pdf file) Overview of NASA and nuclear power in space

5. Theoretical spacecraft propulsion - Wikipedia

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   The fission sail is a type of spacecraft propulsion proposed by Robert Forward that uses fission fragments to propel a large solar sail-like craft. It is similar in concept to the fission-fragment rocket in that the fission by-products are directly harnessed as working mass , and differs primarily in the way that the fragments are used for thrust.

6. Nuclear salt-water rocket - Wikipedia

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   However, if the use of NSWR began to rise, it would be possible to replace this with the cheaper isotopes 233 U or 239 Pu in either fission breeder reactors or (much better) nuclear fusion–fission hybrid reactors. These other fissiles would have the right characteristics to serve nearly as well, at a relatively low cost. [1] [8]

7. SNAP-10A - Wikipedia

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   It is the only fission reactor power system launched into space by the United States. [9] The reactor stopped working after just 43 days due to a non-nuclear electrical component failure. [ 10 ] The Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program reactor was specifically developed for satellite use in the 1950s and early 1960s under the supervision of ...