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Nuclear Power as a Possible Way to Terraforming the Mars for Starting the Colonization

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The beginning of the colonization of Mars and eventually beyond is already very closed. It has likewise built up the process for our annihilation, recently as all previously main assertive species of planet Earth have become extinct before us. Although this remnant a revealing threat, it must be reconsidered to revise the outer space treaty to allow for a Mars establishment of human colonization and terraforming program constructed to design a second viable biosphere for human beings—a fundamental footstep in ensuring our species’ futurity continuity. One of the fundamental and essential needs of the colonization of Mars is a profusion of energy sources. The overall energy system is likely to adoption a combination of resources are positioned on nuclear power, fuel-cell, and solar electricity power. This paper will discuss the opportunity of creating an appropriated system using considerable exclusive modern and featherweight types of nuclear power reactor, in small thermo-nuclear power machines, nuclear fusion-type reactors, portable “rover type” atomic reactors, and mobile battery type of proton reaction cells.

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  1. Higher School of High Voltage Energy, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Saint-Petersbug, Saint-Petersbug, Russia

    Nilan Jayasinghe

  2. Higher School of Nuclear and Heat Power Engineering, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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    Vijay Kumar Sood

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Om P. Malik

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Jayasinghe, N., Gunasekara, U. (2022). Nuclear Power as a Possible Way to Terraforming the Mars for Starting the Colonization. In: Gupta, O.H., Sood, V.K., Malik, O.P. (eds) Recent Advances in Power Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 812. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6970-5_45

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