The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: To get a small reactor to fly, you essentially strip it of shielding and use its heat output to expand air instead of burning fuel to produce thrust. Little shielding ...

THE control of atomic weapons and the development of atomic energy for industrial use are inextricably intertwined. Only through continuity in policy and a constantly controlled process can we ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

NAVSEA awarded Fluor the initial $1.2 billion contract in July 2018. The contract included options that, if exercised, would bring the total estimated value to over $13 billion. Join thousands of ...

Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation, San Francisco, California, is being awarded a $359.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification for nuclear propulsion work at the Bettis Atomic Power ...

Everyone these days wants to talk about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) when it comes to nuclear power. The industry seems to have pinned its hopes for a ‘nuclear renaissance’ on the exciting new ...

The need to regulate nuclear-powered ships is a matter that will only grow more pressing with the passage of time. After decades in which the world’s only nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS ...

DUBAI, March 20 (Reuters) - A nuclear-powered U.S. submarine and another U.S. vessel collided on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz but there was no damage to the atomic propulsion unit, the U.S. Navy ...