According to Yassad News, quoted by Sky News, a group of researchers from Bango University in North Wales have presented a study and claim that they can make space travel safer and more efficient. This is while Rolls Royce last year budgeted for the construction of nuclear reactors for a station on the moon. On the other hand, NASA has decided to send astronauts to the moon again in the Artemis mission in 2025. “We are developing a nuclear reactor,” says Professor Simon Middelburg, a member of Bangor University’s Nuclear Futures Institute
In this regard, we are working with colleagues such as Rolls-Royce, the National Nuclear Laboratory and international partners such as NASA to build these very small reactors that will be placed on the moon
Said fuel is also made using TRISO particles. These particles are the size of peppercorns and could be the key to sustaining life on the moon in the future
In this regard, Middleburg says: The time to develop the required products is very short, and one of these reactors is supposed to go to the moon by the 2030s, and we must act quickly. For this purpose, we invented a fuel for reactors. This was no ordinary challenge, as this was not a standard nuclear fuel that could be used in commercial power-generating reactors
