OREANDA-NEWS. December 23, 2010. The project of development of a megawatt nuclear installation for space vehicles was implemented in accordance with the schedule, Head of Rosatom State Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko said to journalists.

“It’s a qualitative breakthrough since today’s Space Reactor Systemы are designed for tens of kilowatts, the maximum figure being 200 kilowatt. And we are talking about ordinal changes. It opens quite other possibilities — interstellar flights, orbital injection of any number of research, experimental and any other type of equipment “, Kiriyenko said.

According to him, the program of work at this project has been already launched, and at the same time reactorы of thermionic conversion are being developed “which will also be of use but it’s another level”.