Powering a Habitat on Mars with Kilopower
Abstract
When we imagine sending humans long-term to live on the surface of Mars, the moon, or other planetary bodies in the not-so-distant future, one of the primary questions is: How will we provide the colonists with power? Kilopower is a small nuclear reactor being designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in conjunction with NASA that it hopes will one day be the answer to that question.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1424386
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; KILOPOWER; KILO-POWER; MARS; SMALL NUCLEAR REACTOR; STIRLING ENGINE CONVERTER; SPACE REACTOR
Citation Formats
McClure, Patrick, and Poston, David. Powering a Habitat on Mars with Kilopower. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web.
McClure, Patrick, & Poston, David. Powering a Habitat on Mars with Kilopower. United States.
McClure, Patrick, and Poston, David. Wed .
"Powering a Habitat on Mars with Kilopower". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1424386.
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