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NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor

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Being able to generate power will be essential for long-term space travel. Powering a stay on Mars, for example, will require a lot of fuel, way more than we can pack onto a rocket. Thats why NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy and a number of other groups have been working on a small, transportable nuclear reactor that can reliably generate power on the go. The reactor theyre developing is called Kilopower and earlier this year, they announced that they h…..
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