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SpaceNukes receives DARPA award to ground test kilopower reactor
The Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) was awarded an other transaction agreement from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design, build, and conduct a nuclear ground test of a kilopower reactor in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, the company announced.
Athira Varma Jayakumar (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Richard Kuhn (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Brandon Simons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aidan Collins (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Richard Hite (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Raghu Kacker (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Abhi D. Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Proceedings | 12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021) | June 14-17, 2021 | Pages 812-823