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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

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[–] arditty 1 points 1 year ago

As with any technological advancement , there are risks, but if humanity is ever intending to become a spacefairing species, we will have to make peace with nuclear energy. It’s the only technology that comes anywhere close to making interplanetary travel feasible at large scale.