{"id":127252,"date":"2022-06-26T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127252"},"modified":"2022-06-26T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T17:38:45","slug":"nasa-hopes-to-station-nuclear-reactors-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127252","title":{"rendered":"NASA hopes to station nuclear reactors on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127253\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conceptual-illustration-of-a-fission-surface-power-system-by-NASA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127253 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conceptual-illustration-of-a-fission-surface-power-system-by-NASA-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conceptual-illustration-of-a-fission-surface-power-system-by-NASA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conceptual-illustration-of-a-fission-surface-power-system-by-NASA-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conceptual-illustration-of-a-fission-surface-power-system-by-NASA.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NASA wants to use fission power systems on the moon to help power equipment and installations. (NASA)<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three design proposals have been selected by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy for the first single run of this technology. NASA ultimately wants to use fission surface power systems to power equipment and stations on the moon. These nuclear reactors would produce power regardless of the amount of sunlight or other environmental conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox Weather:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Energy&#8217;s Idaho National Laboratory will award 12-month contracts to the following companies to each develop preliminary designs:<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Maryland &#8212; The company will partner with BWXT and Creare.<br \/>\nWestinghouse of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania &#8212; The company will partner with Aerojet Rocketdyne.<\/p>\n<p>IX of Houston, Texas, a joint venture of Intuitive Machines and X-Energy &#8212; The company will partner with Maxar and Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fission Surface Power project is a very achievable first step toward the United States establishing nuclear power on the Moon,&#8221; said Idaho National Laboratory Director John Wagner. &#8220;I look forward to seeing what each of these teams will accomplish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plentiful energy will be key to future space exploration,&#8221; said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington. &#8220;I expect fission surface power systems to greatly benefit our plans for power architectures for the Moon and Mars and even drive innovation for uses here on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The system will be relatively small and lightweight compared to other power systems. Fission systems are reliable and could enable continuous power regardless of location, sunlight and other natural environmental conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox Weather has more on this space exploration energy plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/nuclear-power-moon\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three design proposals have been selected by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy for the &hellip; <a title=\"NASA hopes to station nuclear reactors on the moon\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127252\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA hopes to station nuclear reactors on the moon<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-science","category-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127255,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127252\/revisions\/127255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}