Comparing Low Enriched Fuel to Highly Enriched Fuel for use in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems

What is it about?

Nuclear thermal propulsion reactors are modeled to show that new, affordable and politically correct low enriched nuclear fuel types can be used to create a propulsion method to take humans to Mars without losing the high performance shown by previous experiments where highly enriched uranium was used.

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Why is it important?

This study shows that new nuclear thermal propulsion reactor cores can be created with low enriched uranium instead of high enriched uranium without losing performance.