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• Nuclear brick
  ...days of operation. Americium-242 exists on Earth as a byproduct of normal nuclear reactors. <ref name="Genuth">Genuth, Iddo, 2006, ''Americium Power Source'' ...propellant. will be a thermally rich environment. Energy production from nuclear reactors produces between 50 and 75% of it's output as heat. So these bric
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• Nuclear Electric Propulsion
  ...oled using radiators. The exhaust velocity is generally higher than for [[Nuclear Thermal Propulsion]] so the engine requires less propellant. However, the ...antageous in terms of development costs, as there are currently no nuclear reactor available for space propulsion, while photovoltaic solar is a mature techno
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• Nuclear thermal propulsion
  ...made to run hotter, removing waste heat is a great concern to prevent the reactor from melting. Radiating heat in space is more difficult than on a planet s ...cording to the [[Propulsion|rocket equation]]. An animated illustration of nuclear thermal rockets can be found at <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aBOhC
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• Nuclear food cycle
  ...jhydene.2015.11.049</ref> reactors. Another product produced by the Zn/S/I reactor is breathable [[oxygen|O₂]]. This then forms a loop, where peopl ...e its nuclear fuel is utilized. In other words, feeding a person using the nuclear food cycle requires approximately an extra 1kw_th per person.
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• Sabatier/Water Electrolysis Process
  ...the need for the electrolysis process<ref>Compact and Lightweight Sabatier Reactor for Carbon Dioxide Reduction https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.n ...be too low to complete the refueling of a transportation vehicle. Use of nuclear power rather than solar power would allow for continuous production and red
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• Xenon
  ...o ionize. It may be used as well as an ionizing agent in a [[Nuclear_power|nuclear]] [[Nuclear_power#LMMHD_generators|MHD]] generator. ...imple with molten salt reactors), is a key parameter in managing a fission reactor.
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• Brayton cycle
  *A nuclear reactor power plant using helium cooling is an example of a closed Brayton cycle. ...rs, Tc is the radiator temperature, and Th would be the temperature of the reactor core. Note that Mars has large cold sinks, so in principle, heat engines w
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• Settlement facilities
  File:Large reactor tile.JPG|[[Nuclear power|Nuclear reactors]] with external cooling File:Reactor tile.JPG|[[Nuclear power|Self contained reactors]]
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• Biological reactors
  ...as a [[food|foodstuff]] utilizing [[Nuclear_power|nuclear power]] in the [[nuclear food cycle]], or [[Photovoltaics|solar power]] electricity, which may be co
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• Propellant
  ==Nuclear thermal propulsion== ..., which is higher for propellants with low [[molar mass|molar mass]]. The reactor core is made as hot as practical, and then the low GMM of the hydrogen most
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• Create a settlement
  rect 450 1500 700 1750 [[Nuclear power]] rect 1800 1660 1900 1750 [[Nuclear power]]
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• LFTR
  ...s you know what [[Isotopes]] are. See [[Nuclear power]] for other forms of nuclear power. ...ll beta decay into Uranium 233 (U233). It turns out that U233 is an ideal nuclear fuel, for reasons explained below.
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• Cost of energy on Mars
  ...hoices, from flexible film unrolled directly on the ground to high powered nuclear reactors.]] ...and time comes, we can estimate a preliminary value for the cost of solar, nuclear or geothermal energy on Mars for a growing settlement of a few hundred to a
  17 KB (2,767 words) - 06:46, 7 November 2023
• Electricity
  ...nuclear material to go critical and produce energy. Secondary systems for nuclear reactors, such as turbogenerators are more efficient when they are larger ===Nuclear energy===
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• Thorium
  ...r thermal propulsion]] and [[Ion_thruster#Pulsed_Fission_Fusion_.28PuFF.29|nuclear pulsed propulsion]]. When Th232 is in a reactor core it undergoes neutron bombardment. It can be bred into U233 (an ideal
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• Nuclear power
  [[Image:nuclear_warning_sign.png|right|Nuclear Danger Icon]] [[File:Reactor tile.JPG|right|frameless|50x50px|link=Create a settlement]]
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• Syngas
  ...ef> to convert the large amounts of lower temperature heat produced by the reactor to smaller quantities of much higher temperature heat required to run the h
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• Food preservation
  ...ctive as long as the food remains in a sealed container. [[nuclear reactor|Nuclear reactors]] are a possible source of [[radiation]], and may be the main [[po
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• Radioactive Rarity on Mars
  ...lements are on Mars, and to what extent this will effect the usefulness of nuclear power on the planet. The most important radioactive elements are Uranium / ==Would Lower Radioactives Cripple Martian Nuclear Power==
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• Methane
  ...bons|polymer]] materials, furnace linings or control elements in [[nuclear reactor]]s.
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