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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