Can a private company develop nuclear power.?
Me and friends were just talking about random stuff. Decided that the government is too slow about getting into space. That a private company could probably get there faster. I guess though the next gen of space ships are going to be nuclear powered. So yeah, can a private organization even compete then.
Update:Hehe, jsut to clarify, i mean really really get out there. Like a trip to jupiter....or the space cruises to the moon that were expected in 2002 to be common by 2008.
A private company will be willing to take more risks. Doesn't' need to allocate their money to other things (like everything else the government needs to spend money on). Give the peopel stock options and they become even more motivated to make it out into space.
Can fire up space tourism and anyone that wants research done....could pay the company to do their research for them....lots of possibilities to make up the money that a possible private company would want to tackle this.
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So General Electric has never built a nuclear power plants? There are no privately owned utility companies? But sure. Nuclear energy is very heavily regulated and very dangerous research, like the research done by NASA into nuclear powered rockets, will not be allowed by a private contractor. And it is dangerous. During NASAs tests pieces of the reactors fuel rods flew out of the rocket nozzle along with the hydrogen exhaust... Don´t expect to get a permit to toy around with one of those. Just the permits needed to even look at a uranium fuel rod is quite prohibitive. And for good reasons. Nuclear materials simply cannot be allowed to be handled my anyone.
Currently all the nuclear power plants connected to the power grid in the USA are privately owned and operated. There are a number of reasons why nuclear power is attractivle as a fuel for deep space missions, but if your talking about using a nuclear powered rocket to send a ship into space, then its never going to happen. You have to rememeber that when you talk about sending stuff into space, the name of the game is to stay light. Any nuclear powered rocket would requires a lot of shielding, which would significantly increase the weight and the associated cost.
No. nuclear power is a regulated industry. That means that any nuclear facility will be under government control. A private company may be contracted by the government to develop a nuclear energy source, but ulitmitaley they will have to report to the government. With the condition of the world today, the government wont let anybody control nuclear power. And just a little FYI, we have been going to space for awhile now. Do the names Buzz Aldrin or Neil Armstrong ring a bell with you?
that's technically plausible for inner maximum companies to enhance something that's scientifically and technologically plausible. Governments grant investment, not superheros (different than the SEALs.) That reported, a nuclear-powered propulsion of a spaceship isn't very achieveable. you're able to desire to warmth a spaceship, or potential its electronics, by utilising nuclear reactions. yet to propel a spaceship, you're able to toss mass with equivalent momentum interior the different direction. equivalent momentum means a lighter mass vacationing a lot a lot swifter (as contained in terms of rockets) interior the different direction. there is not any medium in area to allow you to apply a propeller or tail fin, as there is interior the sea. The governments of the international could (and particular might) limit inner maximum businesses from strapping radioactive fabric onto explosive rockets and launching it into and by way of our environment. All that reported, a number of the area probes that have been released, and proceed to run until the flow away the image voltaic device many some years later, are powered by utilising electricity generated by way of radioactive decay.
Only if you are a High School student whose father works for a nuclear lab where you can steal nuclear material and show how dumb grownups are. Oh, I think I saw the movie!
Remember, Al Gore invented nuclear power.