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Blue Castle project to be revived as SMR facility
The dormant Blue Castle nuclear power plant project in Utah has resurfaced, only this time as a proposed small modular reactor facility.
Blue Castle Holdings and Fulcrum Point Holdings—founded by the owner of Hi Tech Solutions, a company behind a separate Utah nuclear project—announced last week a joint venture to advance the Blue Castle project in Green River, Utah, the origins of which trace back almost 20 years.
Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies Company is developing space nuclear propulsion engine system technologies for both nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) and nuclear electric propulsion (NEP). Additionally we are working with NASA and industry to create the capability for using nuclear power systems on the surface of the moon and Mars.
https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/space-power-systems
