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Fission Surface Power Phase 1 (Westinghouse team)
Prime contractor: Westinghouse Electric Company
Project facts
- Prime contractor
- Westinghouse Electric Company
- Competing contractors
- Lockheed Martin, IX (Intuitive Machines + X-Energy)
- Award date
- First-use target
- Reactor on launch pad — early 2030s target
- Contract value
- $5Mas of [1]Leverages Westinghouse's eVinci terrestrial microreactor technology
Customers
NASA
Overview
Westinghouse leverages its eVinci microreactor design heritage. Phase 1 deliverable: 40 kW class lunar surface reactor concept compatible with surface lander mass budgets.
Source bibliography
- [1]Westinghouseretrievedhttps://info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/westinghouse-awarded-nasa-doe-contract-to-continue-development-of-space-microreactor-concept
- [2]Nuclear Engineering Internationalretrievedhttps://www.neimagazine.com/news/nasa-and-doe-tap-westinghouse-to-advance-space-microreactor-design/
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