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Nuclear technology releases the energy locked inside atoms. The power this generates could one day take spaceships beyond our Solar System.
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Nuclear rockets In the future, nuclearpowered rockets could take us to the stars. The farther away from the Sun a rocket goes, the less useful solar panels become, while traditional rocket fuels weigh a lot and run out quickly. Nuclear energy produces much more propulSioN power than traditional rocket fuels, so scientists are looking to nuclear power as a way to travel farther into space than ever before.
Project Orion was a 1950s design for a nuclear spacecraft.
ave d t h e w a y p t I for… Nuclear weapoNs were developed in the 1940s. Two fissioN bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945, with devastating consequences.
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The first Nuclear power plaNt began generating electricity in 1954 in obNiNsk, outside Moscow, in modern-day Russia.
