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OSTP memo guides space nuclear plan
A White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum released on Tuesday guides NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense on their roles in deploying near-term space nuclear power.
This follows a series of NASA announcements last month—driven by the executive order “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” issued by Trump in December—including an ambitious timeline for establishing a moon base, which would rely on fission surface power (FSP) to survive the long lunar night at the moon’s south pole, and plans for a nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) rocket to be launched in 2028.
Patrick F. O’Rourke, Scott D. Ramsey
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 1 | April 2025 | Pages S264-S294
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2024.2343119
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The Grigoriev-Meleshko Method, an indirect Lie group theory method, is used to derive the symmetry determining equations (SDEs) of the neutron transport equation (NTE) and the coupled delayed neutron precursor equations (DNPEs). A solution to the SDEs is a Lie group of transformations that can be used to reduce the order of the NTE and DNPEs or outright solve the equations. We found several solutions of the SDEs and worked through the mathematical algorithm to demonstrate relationships of instantiations of the NTE and its known solutions with the Lie groups. Examples of solutions include the Lie group that allows for the transformation of the differential form of the NTE to the integral form of the NTE; the Lie groups that permit Case’s solution; and the Lie group used to transform from the NTE to the α-eigenvalue form of the NTE.