Framatome and Perpetual Atomics to Advance Industrialisation of Space Batteries for Space Exploration
Framatome and Perpetual Atomics to Advance Industrialisation of Space Batteries for Space Exploration Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) and Perpetual Atomics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study the industrialisation of processing americium into sealed sources for radioisotope power systems (“space batteries”), including radioisotope heater units (RHUs) and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). A radioisotope…