Ep 274: David Poston, NASA

1) David Poston’s entrance into a career in space reactor
development and how NASA’s Kilopower project came to be
2) The importance of simplicity in nuclear reactor designs and
why David Poston committed to the use of a Stirling engine in his
reactor prototypes
3) Future applications of the KRUSTY reactor experiment and why
nuclear power is vital to space colonization
4) A summary of results from the DUFF and KRUSTY reactor
experiments and what made them successful programs