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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday August 25, 2018 @10:54PM (#17843951)
Some Russian satellites went into space with two to a whopping six kilowatt reactors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A). The Americans in contrast only got a 500 watt reactor into the sky, and it failed after 43 days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A).
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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by acidburnNSA on Saturday August 25, 2018 @11:03PM (#17843982)
Yes but when you aren't allowed to use highly-enriched (weapons-grade) uranium it's a different story.

And space is a much different story for economics. Out there, fully enriching your fuel probably makes sense because weight is so expensive. My comment was limited to terrestrial reactors.

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