During the tests, the fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes. That’s 4,220 degree Fahrenheit (2,326°C), roughly equivalent to the heat a nuclear rocket engine would ...

General Atomics and NASA have successfully tested a new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The new fuel could help power ...

In 2023, the Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin a $33.7 million contract to develop nuclear propulsion technologies, as part of the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (fittingly ...

The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system, a type of nuclear rocket. According to GA-EMS president Scott Forney, the company's latest nuclear fuel tests show that their ...