China’s nuclear space reactor could be 100 times more powerful than NASA’s

Le Réacteur Nucléaire Spatial Chinois Pourrait être 100 Fois Plus

China’s space program has completed the design of a prototype for a powerful nuclear reactor. This could be 100 times more powerful than the one developed by NASA.

With Chinese technological advances, scientists are calling for more comprehensive security assessment and management.

As predicted by the South China Morning Post report, the Chinese space program has completed the design of a prototype nuclear reactor. This program builds the reactor to keep up with other space agencies that have also dealt with nuclear plans. For example, NASA, which recently hired private companies to develop a nuclear fission system for future lunar missions.

Likewise, the Chinese space program, which has already built some of its reactor components, wants to power future missions to the Moon and MARTA with nuclear power.

In turn, the nuclear reactor that China will develop will be able to generate one megawatt of electric power, which will make it 100 times more powerful than the device that NASA intends to send to the moon by 2030. After that, everything, the fission of the American space system and the nuclear power plant will be affiliated The agency is capable of providing about 40 kilowatts of electricity — according to NASA, enough to power 30 homes for a decade.

Although there is not much information available yet, the South China Morning Post revealed that two scientists involved in developing the prototype project confirmed that it is complete, along with some of its components.

Futurism said there was some concern about the secrecy surrounding China’s nuclear space reactor programme. This is because there may be a lack of government regulation of various potentially unexpected events.

There is an urgent need to put in place a safety assessment and management system adapted to the technological situation of our country, to increase transparency in the progress of research and development in order to reduce the concerns of the general public.

Said Zhang Zi, an aerospace scientist at the Shanghai Space Propulsion Institute.