Tustin-based Mifti has taken another step forward in its race to harness the sun’s power for energy on Earth, according to its partner and investor US Nuclear Corp.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory manages the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy Program, or INFUSE, with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, to help the private sector find solutions to technical challenges that need to be resolved to make practical fusion energy a reality.
Fusion thruster company wants NASA to go to Mars with nuclear propulsion
Working with Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. (MIFTI) which spun out of UC Irvine with an emphasis on developing a thermonuclear fusion-based generator U.S. Nuclear Corp wants to help NASA ferry the first crewed flight to the Red Planet as soon as the early 2030s. Sooner than you think, human engineers and adventurers may be building the first town on Mars, read the enthusiastic press release from U.S. Nuclear Corp.
NASA announced a call for companies issuing a challenge to the energy industry to conceptualize and design an electric nuclear systems (where thermal energy generates electricity for thruster propulsion), in addition to thermal nuclear systems, which involves heat from nuclear reactors directly propel a spacecraft.