Editing Project Prometheus (section)

==Technology==
Project Prometheus was focused on [[nuclear electric rocket|Nuclear electric propulsion]]:<ref name=PFR>{{cite web |url=http://www.everyspec.com/NASA/NASA-JPL/JPL_Prometheus_Final_Report_3673/ |title=982-R120461, PROMETHEUS PROJECT FINAL REPORT |date=Oct 2005 }} Abstract, and link to pdf, of 227 page final report.</ref>{{rp|1}}

Development of spacecraft powered by [[Nuclear electric rocket|nuclear reactors]] to generate electricity. [[Brayton cycle]] turboalternators were selected for power generation.<ref name="PFR" />{{rp|118}} This electricity would then be used to run [[Ion thruster|ion engines]]. It did not study nor pursue [[nuclear thermal propulsion]] (e.g. [[NERVA]]).

NASA's Prometheus reactor was to be built by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of [[Naval Reactors]] in Washington, D.C., per an agreement signed in August 2004.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=David |first=Leonard |date=2005-04-06 |title=NASA's Prometheus: Fire, Smoke And Mirrors |url=https://www.space.com/929-nasas-prometheus-fire-smoke-mirrors.html |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=Space.com |language=en}}</ref> The reactor would have generated 200,000 watts of power for the propulsion and instruments of a spacecraft.<ref name=":0" />