An artist’s impression of what a nuclear thermal ship built to take humans to Mars could look like. Photo: NASA
There are a lot of reasons that a faster spaceship is a better one, and nuclear-powered rockets are a way to achieve this, according to an article posted on the Conversation website on May 20.
Penn State welcomes neutron scattering device—a first of a kind in the U.S.
Staff and researchers at Penn State’s Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC) will work this year to install a small angle neutron scattering (SANS) device and become the first and...
IAEA lab techniques can expose olive oil tampering
The International Atomic Energy Agency is developing multiple methods to rapidly screen and authenticate the origin of foods like extra virgin olive oil. With recent heat waves and droughts...
IAEA microplastic pollution research goes on location in Antarctica
The International Atomic Energy Agency, in cooperation with Argentina, launched a scientific research expedition on January 6 to study microplastics in Antarctica—one of the planet’s most...
New modeling of nuclear device to deflect or destroy asteroids en route to Earth
The same high energy density that makes nuclear energy a clean and efficient source of power could make it a good alternative to defend the planet against catastrophic asteroid impacts. NASA...
NRC to hold workshop on AI regulatory applications
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding the “Data Science and AI Regulatory Applications Workshop,” tomorrow to discuss the agency’s activities for the safe and secure use of...
X-energy, Dow agree to embed an Xe-100 demo at a Gulf Coast industrial facility
Dow and X-energy announced today that they have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to demonstrate the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor at an industrial site in North America...
Deadline approaching for abstract submissions to the 2023 NETS conference
This year the American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2023) conference, which will be held May 7–11, 2023, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, is focusing on...
DARPA’s nuclear rocket demo gets a boost from NASA’s Mars ambitions
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced they will collaborate on plans to launch and test DARPA’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations...
Project Rover: The original nuclear-powered rocket program
It’s Thursday, meaning it’s time to dig through the Nuclear News archives for another #ThrowbackThursday post. Today’s story goes back 60 years to the January 1963 issue of NN and the...
Seeds in space: IAEA/FAO experiment goes the distance for better crops on earth
Seeds from the joint laboratories of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are onboard a Cygnus spacecraft launched from...
