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Is it science fiction to consider living on the moon or traveling to Mars in only a few months? Maybe not. The US government is promoting technologies to place nuclear reactors in space to power human existence on the moon and to propel spacecraft to Mars.
In July 2020, the US National Space Council released a
strategy for deep space exploration. The strategy includes developing a power reactor to produce electricity to support a long-term human presence on the moon and exploring nuclear propulsion to decrease deep-space travel time. Current nuclear power space systems rely on radioisotope decay to provide small amounts of power to operate systems on spacecraft. Those systems are inadequate for larger missions. A fission reactor is needed to support long-duration lunar exploration, and it is needed soon the United States wants to land Americans on the moon’s South Pole by 2024 and establish a sustainable human presenc