Advanced Fuels / USNC Delivers Pilot Triso Fuel Batch To NASA

Space agency sees opportunity to boost space propulsion efforts

USNC Delivers Pilot Triso Fuel Batch To NASA
Cross section (left) and surface (right) images of a zirconium carbide Triso particle with a uranium nitride fuel kernel. Image courtesy USNC.

US-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) has delivered a first batch of tristructural-isotropic, or Triso, fuel particles for NASA’s space nuclear power and propulsion programme, the company said in a statement last week.

USNC said that the fuel could help NASA unlock higher performance at lower cost for future space nuclear efforts.

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