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Space Nuclear Power Corporation Awarded DARPA Agreement for Ground Test of Autonomous Nuclear Reactor Controller
The award funds a follow-on Kilopower test with active control rods and builds on the 2018 KRUSTY demonstration, officials said.
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DARPA wants smart nuclear reactor for space and bases
The Pentagon’s top research agency wants a nuclear reactor that can run itself, and it has hired the team that built America’s last space reactor to prove it can be done. DARPA has awarded Space Nuclear Power Corporation, a small Los Alamos, New Mexico, company known as SpaceNukes, an agreement to build a Kilopower reactor […]
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Space Nuclear Power Corporation Awarded DARPA Agreement for Ground Test of Autonomous Nuclear Reactor Controller
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — October 21, 2026 — Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) announced today that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the company an Other Transaction […]
·Denver, United States
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