China develops a nuclear reactor for space trips "100 times more powerful than NASA"

China está desarrollando un reactor nuclear para ayudar a sus misiones a la Luna y Marte.

The reactor can generate a megavatio of electricity and it is stated that it is 100 times more powerful than a similar device in which NASA is working, according to the South China Morning Post.

NASA's fission energy source would be used to maintain permanent human life on the moon, and it is planned to develop in the late decade.

Chemical fuel and solar energy will not be enough to meet the demands of human space exploration and possible settlements in other bodies, according to two anonymous scientists.

"Nuclear energy is the most hopeful solution.Other nations have launched some ambitious plans.China cannot afford the price of losing this career, ”said one of them.

The space reactor of a megavatio is expected to have some challenges related to cooling, since only a fraction of the heat generated could be used to produce electricity, and the rest must be dissipated in space to avoid a merger.

Due to the small of its size, it will reach a much higher temperature than on Earth.

Jiang Jieqiong, professor at the Institute of Nuclear Safety Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has suggested that the reactor could use a folding structure, similar to an umbrella, to increase the surface of radiators.

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However, there are other ideas: some research teams have been developing smaller reactors that could compile in a larger machine, which could then boost ion propellers to send astronauts to Mars.

Humanity's career to settle in the stars has been accompanied by some problems, such as space garbage.There are approximately 228 million spaces of space garbage by orbiting the planet, but many countries have resisted boarding it.

This month, a Russian satellite exploded in a test that caused hundreds of thousands of waste pieces to be orbit.

China has adopted an equally lax approach, as seen with the Long March 5B rocket, which was circling the earth at a huge speed that made its landing unpredictable in May of this year.

The China Morning Post South affirms that the secretism that surrounds space nuclear reactors means that there is no legislation that can deal with an accident, such as a failed launch or a merger in space.

"It is necessary to urgently establish a security evaluation and management system that adapts to the technological situation of our country, and increase the transparency of advances in research and development to reduce the concern of the general public," said the space scientistZhang Ze, from the Shanghai Space Propulsion Institute.

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