{"id":84166,"date":"2018-10-29T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/russia-tests-key-piece-of-nuclear-space-engine-to-revolutionize-long-range-missions"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:28:20","slug":"russia-tests-key-piece-of-nuclear-space-engine-to-revolutionize-long-range-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/russia-tests-key-piece-of-nuclear-space-engine-to-revolutionize-long-range-missions","title":{"rendered":"Russia \u2018tests\u2019 key piece of nuclear space engine to revolutionize long-range missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6H0qsqZjLW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear engine (aka YaEDU):<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A key component of Russia\u2019s future nuclear space propulsion system, which may revolutionize long-range exploration of the solar system, has been successfully tested, RIA Novosti reported.<\/p>\n<p>Since at least 2009, Russian space and atomic engineers have been developing a special space propulsion system, which uses a 1 megawatt nuclear fusion reactor as source of energy. According to a work competition report, published on a website tracing public spending in Russia and <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/science\/20181029\/1531649544.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reviewed<\/a> by the news agency, one of the crucial elements of the system, which is responsible for cooling down the reactor, has been successfully tested.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear engine, which is known by its abbreviation YaEDU (Nuclear Propulsion and Power Engine System) consists of a small fast-neutron nuclear reactor, an electricity generator fed by the reactor\u2019s heat and space thrusters powered by the generator.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/442521-nuclear-propulsion-system-russia\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/442521-nuclear-propulsion-system-russia\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear engine (aka YaEDU): A key component of Russia\u2019s future nuclear space propulsion system, which may revolutionize long-range exploration of the solar system, has been successfully tested, RIA Novosti reported. Since at least 2009, Russian space and atomic engineers have been developing a special space propulsion system, which uses a 1 megawatt nuclear fusion reactor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84166","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84364,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84166\/revisions\/84364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}