NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor

Re:NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclea... by Thorazul on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:09PM (#16987740)

They should team up with Tesla to develop storage batteries for the reactors in case a reactor fails you would still have some temporary emergency power.

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Re:NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclea... by rmah on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:21PM (#16988979)

Tesla doesn't make the batteries, Panasonic, Samsung and Hitachi does. IIRC, Panasonic is the firm building batteries at Tesla's new gigafactory facility. Tesla simply slaps their name on the battery packs.

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Re:NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclea... by sigstoat on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:23PM (#16990108)

plenty of companies already make batteries for space applications. and the environment is demanding enough, the budget large enough, and the production volume low enough that more exotic battery chemistries are used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries_in_space

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