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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.
Nicholas Dunkle, Sandra Bogetic, Nicholas R. Brown
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 199 | Number 11 | November 2025 | Pages 1870-1898
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2465182
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Liquid-fueled molten salt fast reactors and nuclear-powered integrated energy systems (IESs) have the potential to play a pivotal role in the green energy transition. However, these systems have little to no operating experience. There is therefore increased interest and value in modeling and simulating these systems. The IES dynamic model developed in this work utilizes a lumped-parameter control volume methodology to investigate the behavior of the IES in a variety of accident scenarios. The results provide initial evidence for the potential inherent safety of the advanced reactor because of temperature-dependent reactivity feedback and the efficiency of hydrogen and electricity production at the high temperatures provided by the advanced reactor.