In 1946, the Army Air Forces established the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program to develop a compact reactor that would power a jet engine. An aircraft reactor was a significant challenge. The ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft of the future. The trials verify that the fuel can survive ...

General Atomic's new nuclear fuel was subjected to the maximum heat of a reactor for 20 minutes in the latest tests.

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Jet engine repair. Maintenance of the turbojet engine. Close-up Soviet aircraft engine D30, hanging on a chain hoist. Jet engine repair. Maintenance of the turbojet engine. Close-up. advanced nuclear ...

But despite the fact that a few thousand of them are tearing across the sky above our heads at any given moment, turbine jet engines ... GitHub anytime soon. Nuclear reactors are still fair ...

A DRACO ground test would need to capture plume exhaust fully to ensure no radioactive materials are released to the ...

The first Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor will be built in Europe instead ... It came as Rolls revealed sales of its large aeroplane engines had surged to their highest level in 15 years, helping ...

If we want to rely on nuclear fusion to power the ... and compact compared with other 'doughnut-shaped' reactors. The Joint European Torus (JET), also located in Oxfordshire, released a total ...

A £9bn deal for nuclear submarine reactors has been agreed between the Ministry of Defence and Rolls-Royce - the biggest ever ...

One day, it might be a drop-top sports car; the next, it's a satellite, and then they'll find a way to build a nuclear reactor ... the fuel controls for the jet engine is enough to make you ...

the moment when a nuclear fusion reactor will produce more power than is required to drive the fusion process in the first place. At this point the Joint European Torus (JET) reactor holds the ...