After the decree signed by Trump, experts suspected the readiness of the United States to place nuclear weapons in space

While a sharp internal political struggle is going on in the United States, the incumbent President Donald Trump continues to make individual decisions related to the military program. In particular, Trump signed a decree that provides for the use of "low-power" nuclear reactors "for space exploration." Information about the signing of this kind of document is confirmed by the press service of the Trump presidential administration.

By decree, Trump instructs the Pentagon to develop and test a mobile low-power nuclear reactor, which will “be used for the first time in several decades. navy, but for other needs. " What specific needs of the Pentagon in this case we are talking about is not specified.

At the same time, it is added that low-power nuclear reactors "among other things" are planned to "be used in programs for the study of celestial bodies - the Moon, Mars and not only." Why did it suddenly become necessary for the United States to send nuclear reactors into space, where energy can be obtained even with solar panels? The American administration says that nuclear reactors will be used in space, allegedly where "there is no possibility of obtaining energy from the sun."

In general, this decree looks, to put it mildly, controversial. It is assumed that it could become a prologue to Washington's deployment of a nuclear weapons in outer space, which is currently prohibited by international standards. But is there any international norm for the current United States that they are ready to abide by? That is why experts suspected the United States' readiness to implement the plan by placing nuclear weapons in space.

And this decree Trump is also called "a difficult legacy for the 46th President - Biden." But whether Joe Biden himself is against the placement of nuclear weapons (for a start - nuclear reactors) in space is an open question.

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[Sofa expert]

It's not scary, c500 is on the way!

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: Sofa Expert

It's not scary, c500 is on the way!

Do you think "reactors" will be placed in low orbit?

[Aerodrome]

In particular, Trump signed a decree that provides for the use of "low-power" nuclear reactors "for space exploration."

as if, without "decrees" and publicity, this is not done ... aha.

[venik]

Quote: Vladimir_2U

Do you think "reactors" will be placed in low orbit?

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Well, until now they were placed there. They are needed for low-orbit radar reconnaissance satellites, where, along with a rather high power consumption of onboard equipment, there is a need to use the propulsion system from time to time, since it is in low orbits that "residual traces of the atmosphere" are present, decelerating satellites.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: venik

there is a need to use the propulsion system from time to time

How does this compare with reactors? No, I am aware, in general, about electric propulsion. But the Merikans have no reactors in any orbit. Although yes, our satellites with YR flew in low orbits, albeit beyond the estimated 200 km of the S-500 range

[Civil]

We are waiting for Rogozin's answer ... I think he will promise a network of reactors in orbit by 2050.

[dSK]

The reusable X-37 drones have been flying for many years, a year or two in space, and they have no solar panels ...

[Civil]

Quote from dsk

The reusable X-37 drones have been flying for many years, a year or two in space, and they have no solar panels ...

Or maybe a radioisotope thermoelectric generator on it?

[Blackmokona]

Actually there is

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Civil

We are waiting for Rogozin's answer ... I think he will promise a network of reactors in orbit by 2050.

And he will answer, he will answer for everything.
And now he's still on vacation.

[Civil]

Quote: Stroporez

Quote: Civil

We are waiting for Rogozin's answer ... I think he will promise a network of reactors in orbit by 2050.

And he will answer, he will answer for everything.
And now he's still on vacation.

Dear Editor!
Maybe better - about the reactor?
About your favorite moon tractor?
After all, it’s impossible! - year in a row
That scare plates -
Say, vile, fly,
Then your dogs bark
Then your ruins say!

[Sling cutter]

Quote: Sofa Expert

It's not scary, c500 is on the way!

And what has the S-500 to do with it?

[Vol4ara]

What does atomic rectors and yao have to do with it? The author that smokes? With this logic, one can agree that the placement of reactors in space is the result of a crop failure in Somalia

[Cosm22]

The author, it seems, has already drank up to glitches.
If the use of low-power nuclear reactors for space exploration, by virtue of some of his fantasies, directly links with the placement of nuclear weapons in space.
By the way, why were the jingo-patriots so excited?
When in Russia, back in 2009, a TEM project with a nuclear power plant (the so-called Nuclon) was presented, this did not cause any remarks or condemnations from them.
When just a few days ago a state contract was signed between Roskosmos and KB Arsenal for "the development of a preliminary project for the creation of a space complex with a transport and energy module based on a nuclear power plant," they also kept quiet.
And now they suddenly began to shout in unison.
Nuclon-AP, by the way, is also presented as an apparatus for studying the Moon. How does this approach differ from the American one?
Indeed, it is difficult to attribute the Russian device to low-power devices, tk. it was originally classified in the megawatt class.

[Buffet]

It's just that those who are not in the subject and Konanykhina are not looking, they ask such stupid questions as the author of the article.

[Pessimist22]

SDI 2, let them do it, the main thing is not to overstrain, yesterday I read an article on Vzglyad "A whole class of warships turned into scrap metal" is very interesting.

[NDR-791]

The fact that nuclear weapons in space will still be normal people with a head was clear back in 83g. And nuclear-powered power plants in space have been flying and driving since the 60s.

1 - block of the cesium steam supply system and actuators of the regulating bodies; 2 - TRP; 3 - ZhMK pipeline; 4 - РЗ; 5 - ZhMC compensation tank; 6 - CI; 7 - frame structure.
For those interested, the link: https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/29489/

[rotmistr60]

could be a prologue to Washington's deployment of nuclear weapons in outer space

The American military has been talking about this for a long time. And international agreements and treaties to the Americans, as the practice of recent years has shown, do not care - I want to sign, I want to leave unilaterally. Another interesting thing

nuclear reactors will be used in space, allegedly where "there is no possibility of obtaining energy from the sun"

Where is it? On the far side of the Moon or in the Pluto region? They are cunning and verbiage.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: rotmistr60

They are cunning and verbiage.

Yes, they consider everyone to be worse than themselves, Look at what "excuses" they make. They don't even bother about believability. What came to mind, then blundered.
It seems to me that it started from here. "We have proof, but we won't show you."
Earlier, although the rale was no less, but at least the semblance of decency was respected

[Andrew 40]

Whoever controls space will dominate in a serious conflict. And we have a complete, generally large black hole with space.

[dzvero]

Where is it?

In the 70s / 80s, the USSR used reactors on the US-A radar reconnaissance satellites. As a source of energy for systems when the satellite is in the shadow of the Earth. One satellite (Kosmos-954) even fell into Canada.
Apparently, they are planning to output something that the energy from batteries and retegs will not be enough.

[Sofa expert]

[/ Quote]
Do you think "reactors" will be placed in low orbit? [/ Quote]
They are cunning, they do not finish speaking .. But while they develop it all, test it, launch it into orbit, the c500 will be on the OBD - to guard our space around the outer space .. FOR the Army and the Navy !!!

[Thrifty]

Actually, this was where it all went! The only question is whether we or the United States will start operating satellites on a massive scale with small-sized nuclear power plants on board earlier. And from such satellites to the full-scale deployment of nuclear weapons in space is not even a half step!

[Mykhalych]

By decree, Trump instructs the Pentagon to develop and test a mobile low-power nuclear reactor, which will be "for the first time in several decades, not used in the Navy, but for other needs." What specific needs of the Pentagon in this case we are talking about is not specified. This is concrete - everything else is from the field of conspiracy theories. And what experts have suspected something, huh? List in the studio!

[for]

He could not sign it, he was banned on Twitter.

[Andrea]

There are no questions, for a long time all over the world there have been developments on the use of nuclear energy in space, both as an energy source and as an engine.
Have you dug a fresh bone?
And although the states do not care about international law, one must hope that exclusivity has not completely knocked their brains out.
Because nuclear weapons will be instantly deployed in space, not only by Russia, but also by China and India.

[Alexey Sommer]

The author's conclusions about the direct connection between the development of low-power nuclear reactors and the deployment of atomic weapons in space are far-fetched.
They will want to place them, they will place them without low-power reactors.
An analogue of the orbital tug Nuclon, they are going to do it.
For this and the presidential decree.

[rocket757]

While there is a sharp internal political struggle in the United States, incumbent President Donald Trump continues to make individual decisions,

so what's unusual about that?
he wants to leave the next administration "legacy", MISCELLANEOUS!

[APASUS]

There Musk was going to explore Mars and the reactors fit perfectly into the energy sources. And no one will ask us, this is already an axiom. But ours behave strangely too, raise the issue at the UN

[Evgeny Velikanov]

Author, why does Russia need a nuclear tug in space if, in your own words, you can use solar energy?

[slipped]

Quote: Evgeny Velikanov

Why does Russia need a nuclear tug in space, if, according to you, you can use solar energy?

I am not an author, but I will note that 1680 square meters of solar panels of the American segment of the ISS generated 120 kW of electricity when they were turned on, but after degradation in an aggressive space environment due to ionizing radiation and micrometeorites, at best, they receive about 70 kW of arrivals.

Now in Russia a prototype of a compact space reactor with 500 kW of power has already been created, in turn, its power is planned to be increased to 1 MW. This is a very good energy for cargo transportation, given the 10-20 years of continuous operation of the product.

There is one more thing - for a manned flight independent of ballistic conditions within the solar system, an energy of 24 MW is required.

[Svetlana]

Quote: slipped

Now in Russia a prototype of a compact space reactor with 500 kW of power has already been created, in turn, its power is planned to be increased to 1 MW.

A small-sized air-cooled nuclear reactor has already been tested on Burevestnik.
We also designed a small-sized nuclear reactor (YR) for 8-10 MW thermal power for a disk-shaped thermal airship, similar to that made in Ulyanovsk. A thermal airship equipped with a synthetic aperture AFAR can be used to search for aircraft carriers and submarines. Nuclear reactors can be used with liquid metal (lead, bismuth) or with a liquid-salt coolant of the flyb type, enhanced radiation protection and mechanical protection against impact during a hard landing. The airship can also be made in an unmanned version. The first circuit in the nuclear reactor is a circulating fly, the second circuit is a hot gas (air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide) with forced circulation in a closed circuit: the space under the airship shell - a low pressure gas turbocharger - fly / gas heat exchanger - the space under the airship shell.

[Svetlana]

The takeoff and landing of a thermal disk-shaped airship AWACS can be carried out on gas burners similar to those used in thermal balloons.
For this, the thermal airship, in addition to the onboard nuclear reactor, is equipped with a reserve of organic fuel (a cylinder with propane-butane, methane) with a gas burner. In emergency situations and before landing, the YR airship is muffled and switched to heating the hot gas under the shell from the gas burner. The maritime patrolling areas of the AWACS airship make it possible to use emergency shooting of the muffled nuclear reactor over the water area and its temporary burial under water in order to passively cool the nuclear reactor core.
The airship is also equipped with a computer complex, communications equipment, a friend-or-foe identification kit, a navigation system (inertial + Glonass), radio navigation devices, and electronic warfare equipment. An onboard gas turbine electric generator is used to power the systems. In a gas turbine, a gas / fly heat exchanger is used to heat the working fluid.

[Voltsky]

After the decree signed by Trump, experts suspected the readiness of the United States to place nuclear weapons in space

xs, how are the experts and other holy fools who call themselves such ... But everyone who wants to know about this has long known, X-37B - what is it ?!