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Nuclear thermal propulsion could one day power a rocket that makes the trip in just half the time.
Nuclear fission involves harvesting the incredible amount of energy released when an atom is split by a neutron.
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are jointly developing NTP technology.
They plan to deploy and demonstrate a prototype system in space in 2027 .
The nuclear thermal propulsion engine will differ from all existing fission power systems, so engineers will need to build software tools that work with this new engine.
My group designs and analyzes reactors using models to see how things such as temperature changes may affect the reactor and the rocket’s safety.
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