BWXT to begin work on cislunar nuclear rocket engine and fuel : New Nuclear - World Nuclear News

BWXT to begin work on cislunar nuclear rocket engine and fuel : New Nuclear - World Nuclear News: The USA's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has finalised an agreement with Lockheed Martin to begin work on the fabrication and design of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket and its engine. BWX Technologies, one of Lockheed Martin's partners in the effort, will develop the nuclear reactor and fabricate the HALEU fuel.