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Nuclear Power Assessment Study Report to NETS - February 2015

  • Nuclear Power Assessment Study - Final Report - 4 February 2015 (accessiblie via this page)
  • The 2014 NASA Nuclear Power Assessment Study (NPAS): Safety, Environmental Impact, and Launch Approval Considerations and Findings
  • The Nuclear Power Assessment Study
  • Mission Study Results Investigating Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems and Fission Power Systems
  • Reference Power System Options for the Nuclear Power Assessment Study
  • The 2014 NASA Nuclear Power Assessment Study:Assembly, Test and Launch Operations Comparisons between a Notional 1 kWe Fission Power System and a Conventional Radioisotope Power System
  • Report of the RPS Provisioning Strategy Team

Power Systems

  • McNutt presentation on Radioisotope Electric Propulsion at the Space
    Technology and Applications International Forum February 2006
  • Schmidt and Houts presentation on Radioisotope-based Nuclear Power
    Strategy for Exploration Systems Development at the Space Technology
    and Applications International Forum February 2006

Jupiter

Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter (JIMO)/Prometheus

  • NASA's Space Vision: Business Case for Prometheus 1 Needed to Ensure Requirements Match Available Resources (2005)

We're Running Out of the Nuclear Fuel That Powers Space Travel

Plutonium-238 and the Radioisotope Power Systems Supply Chain

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Scientific Goals for Exploration of the Outer Solar System

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