Because Chicago had an existing population of top physicists and chemists, was centrally located far from both coasts, and had space ... reactor is designed to split atoms. Some elements, like uranium ...

There is, however, a nuclear reactor that is in Earth orbit. The U.S.’ first and only known space nuclear reactor, the SNAP-10A was the result of the government-sponsored System for Nuclear ...

The micro-reactors are designed to be an energy source ... The success of those could enable “more efficient propulsion” into space, which in turn would significantly reduce the time of transit for ...