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DARPA and NASA are currently developing designs to do exactly that under Kilopower, Megapower, and similar programs. Enabling long duration unmanned deep space missions is explicitly one of NASA's goals with this.



And then the helium and hydrogen, turned the containement vessel into a sieve over the long run, pushing the vessel of course. The end.




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