It has emerged that Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. government’s principle nuclear research and development agency, and defense contractor Northrop Grumman are working on powering the next generation of drones with nuclear power. With nuclear powered drones, endurance could stop being measured in hours and would be measured in months with excess power used to [...]
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