Rolls-Royce Wins Funding for Nuclear-Powered Moon Base Research
March 17 2023 - 4:17AM
Dow Jones News
By Joe Hoppe
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC said Friday that it has secured 2.9
million pounds ($3.5 million) from the U.K. Space Agency for
research into how nuclear power could support a future moon
base.
The British aerospace and defense company said that it is
working on a micro-reactor program, developing technology to
provide power needed for humans to live and work on the moon.
The space agency has now announced GBP2.9 million of new funding
for the project to deliver an initial demonstration of a U.K. lunar
modular nuclear reactor. This follows on from a GBP249,000 study
funded by the agency in 2022.
The company said it plans to have a reactor ready to send to the
moon by 2029. Relatively small and lightweight, a micro-reactor can
provide continuous power regardless of environmental conditions,
and has a wide-ranging use of potential applications, including
commercial and defense use cases.
Rolls-Royce will work alongside a variety of collaborators,
including a number of U.K. universities and the Nuclear Advanced
Manufacturing Research Centre, it said.
Write to Joe Hoppe at joseph.hoppe@wsj.com
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