{"id":127938,"date":"2021-09-21T22:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/rolls-royce-is-developing-a-nuclear-reactor-for-mining-the-moon-and-mars"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:22:21","slug":"rolls-royce-is-developing-a-nuclear-reactor-for-mining-the-moon-and-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/rolls-royce-is-developing-a-nuclear-reactor-for-mining-the-moon-and-mars","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Is Developing a Nuclear Reactor for Mining the Moon and Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rolls-royce-is-developing-a-nuclear-reactor-for-mining-the-moon-and-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The firm is looking into how a micro-nuclear reactor could be used to propel rockets while in space at huge speeds and how that technology could then be redeployed to provide energy for drilling, processing, and storage for \u201cMoon mining\u201d and possibly \u201cMars mining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave Gordon, head of the company\u2019s defense division, said this work is possible thanks to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and their respective space companies.<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u2019s Rolls-Royce is the only company on the planet that does mechanical, electrical, and nuclear and a full end-to-end lifecycle of nuclear capability. He also noted that the firm could use its experience in developing nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Navy for 60 years to apply what it learned to spacecraft since submarines and spacecraft are somewhat similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The firm is looking into how a micro-nuclear reactor could be used to propel rockets while in space at huge speeds and how that technology could then be redeployed to provide energy for drilling, processing, and storage for \u201cMoon mining\u201d and possibly \u201cMars mining.\u201d Dave Gordon, head of the company\u2019s defense division, said this work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}