▲ | acidburnNSA 3 days ago | |
It's a lot different from a TRIGA. It doesn't have hydrogen in the fuel and it uses high temperature/high pressure helium gas as the coolant (vs. water in a TRIGA). We did run a nuclear reactor in space once that did use TRIGA fuel. It was called SNAP-10A. More recently, the Kilopower test ran a reactor on land but intended for space with a U-Mo metallic fuel. |