Gas Core Fission Systems
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Gas Core Fission Systems
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 Research Cost: 20000
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| Gaseous uranium hexafluoride undergoes fission and is cooled by hydrogen propellant, providing thrust. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Molten core fission systems still rely on heat conversion and turbines to generate electricity or thrust, which is not the most efficient way to harness power. Our new gas core fission systems use gaseous uranium hexafluoride as fuel, contained within the reaction chamber using superconducting magnets. Thanks to this powerful yet precise containment field, the fission reaction never touches the chamber walls. This enables us to place highly-efficient solid-state energy collectors around the reactions and thus capture their energy. These collectors transform the electromagnetic radiation and charged particles from fission reactions directly into electricity. Additionally, this reactor design uses gaseous hydrogen as both reactor coolant and propellant - igniting it within the reactor chamber and pushing it out through the drive cone. As with prior breakthroughs, gas core fission enables more sustainable habitats far away from Earth, as well as more powerful spaceship drives. Even so, this is far from the end of the road for fission-based technologies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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6250 | Total | 42250 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Advanced Fission Systems | (100%)Vapor Core Fission Reactor I • (100%)Antimatter Plasma Core Reactor I • (100%)Gas Core Fission Reactor I • (100%)Heavy Fission Reactor Array | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "The word 'atom' stems from the ancient Greek atomon, which means 'uncuttable.' And yet, here we are, creating energy by splitting the atom - cutting the uncuttable." Director Khalid Al-Ashgar, Project Exodus Keynote Speech at the annual The Space Society conference | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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