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LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, Discovery Building
SUMMARY:Justin Kasper: Nuclear Power (fusion and fission)\, Galactic R
 adiation\, and Space Exploration \, Physics Department Colloquium\, Ju
 stin Kasper\, PhD\, BWX Technologies\, Inc. and University of Michigan
  Climate & Space
DESCRIPTION:Special joint colloquium between Physics\, Engineering Phy
 sics\, and Astronomy:<br>
\nNuclear Power is about to Transform our Pr
 esence in Space.<br>
\nWe are a decade into a revolution in our abilit
 y to access\, explore\, and use space. The cost of rockets and spacecr
 aft and the time between launches have dropped by orders of magnitude.
  Advanced technologies allow us to send probes into harsh environments
  like the atmosphere of the Sun\, the frozen craters of the lunar pole
 s and the icy moons of the outer planets. Our ambitions are limited by
  the amount of energy we can carry into space\, or more precisely the 
 density of that energy. We need heat and electricity to operate on the
  moon at night or in permanently shadowed craters\, and more efficient
  rockets to transport humans and cargo to Mars\, and nuclear power is 
 the solution. A small fission reactor can continuously power a base on
  the moon or Mars for a decade\, and nuclear propulsion is several tim
 es more efficient than chemical rockets\, halving the duration of a cr
 ewed mission.  This talk will review the amazing work in nuclear techn
 ology and design under way right now to deploy nuclear power and propu
 lsion in space.<br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=7938
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