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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by petre on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:09AM (#14701428)
They don't have to build it on Mars. A kilowatt scale nuclear reactor is small and also safer and more portable. The Russians have already sent nuclear powered satellites into space.
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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by cortexio on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:16AM (#14701459)
Yeah, i used the wrong word there. I meant, "put" instead of "build"
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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by Sharlin on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:44AM (#14701596)
Sure they can. That's the whole point! It turns out nuclear reactors scale down surprisingly well.
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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by baybal2 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:20AM (#14701782)
Relatively speaking. Burnup ratios go up with size. Unless you do blended fuel-moderator designs which as I know, were never built
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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by wbl on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:03PM (#14703545)
Triga counts as one of those iiuc.
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