[NIAC 2023] Fusion Reactor To Melt Through Europa's Ice

In this interview, I'm talking with Theresa Benyo and Lawrence Forsley from NASA. They are authors of a Lattice Confinement Fusion Reactor that got a NIAC award this year. A reactor like this could help us melt through the ice on Europa and Enceladus and have other interesting applications in space missions. The extended version also includes additional questions from Matt Williams: https://youtu.be/decKMi2FBxk 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 👉 More about the NIAC project; https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/AccessingIcyWorld_Oceans/ 00:00 Intro 02:30 How tough is Europa's ice 04:31 Lattice confinement fusion 14:43 How the probe will look like 22:54 What's next for the NIAC project 25:57 Other applications for the reactor 31:55 Where's the upper limit for the project 37:15 Going interstellar 41:10 Behind the scenes and additional questions 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/7Idm53V687I 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)