The Kilopower reactors are tiny nuclear reactors that have been redesigned for safe power. The full power runs for the test reactors will be done this month and the next two months. Before the ...

The future of space exploration may rest in the hands of a group of Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers. They’ve built the first of a new generation of small nuclear reactors intended to power ...

NASA is working on a nuclear reactor to power (and later propel) deep-space exploration, such as human missions to the moon and Mars. Kilopower is a 1- to 10-kilowatt design that could theoretically ...

Here on Earth, the ability to generate electricity is something we take for granted. We can count on the sun to illuminate solar panels, and the movement of air and water to spin turbines. Fossil ...

Last year, NASA conducted a successful test of a new nuclear power generator called Kilopower under a program called Kilowatt Using Stirling Technology or KRUSTY for short. The generator ran a series ...

Many of our most ambitious space missions to space have been made possible using nuclear power. On Thursday (Jan. 18), scientists and officials from NASA and the Department of Energy gathered at the ...