USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win backing for nuclear thermal propulsion research
Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies and its partners are among three teams winning $5 million contracts from NASA and the Department of Energy to develop reactor designs for space-based nuclear thermal propulsion systems. USNC-Techs partners include its parent company, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp., and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Blue Origin space venture as well as General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy, General Electric Research, Framatome and Materion. The team will work under the direction of the DOEs Idaho National Laboratory to mature a concept known as the Power Adjusted Demonstration Mars Engine, or PADME. Another contract went to Virginia-based BWX Read More
USNC-Tech and Blue Origin win backing for nuclear thermal propulsion research
Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies and its partners are among three teams winning $5 million contracts from NASA and the Department of Energy to develop reactor designs for space-based nuclear thermal propulsion systems. USNC-Techs partners include its parent company, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp., and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Blue Origin space venture as well as General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy, General Electric Research, Framatome and Materion. The team will work under the direction of the DOEs Idaho National Laboratory to mature a concept known as the Power Adjusted Demonstration Mars Engine, or PADME. Another contract went to Virginia-based BWX Read More