NASA needs nuclear power to achieve a sustainable human presence on Lunar and Mars surfaces. Kilopower II addresses a gap in the NASA Technology Roadmaps (TA-03) for robust, sun-independent power generation in the 1 to 10 kWe range. NASA needs a long-life, low-cost power option for missions where solar is not practical. Future Exploratory Missions require a reliable source of power Lunar/Mars explorations including ISRU propellant production and crew life support and operations, for which there is no off-the-shelf solution. KRUSTY serves as a baseline for on follow-on human missions with multiple stand-alone units that provide redundancy/fault tolerance and flexibility for re-use at multiple sites with power needs of 1 to 10 kWe throughout the solar system (e.g. permanently-shaded lunar craters, subsurface Europa science, deep space electric propulsion, others.)


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    Title :

    Special Topic for Nuclear CLT: Kilopower Project



    Publication date :

    2018-05-25


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    Language :

    English






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