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BWX Technologies is a company that is a supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the United States government. The company was founded in 1867, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
The company looks to provide technical, management, and site services to support governments in the operation of complex facilities and environmental remediation activities. They supply precision manufactured components and services for the commercial nuclear power industry. BWX Technologies has created nuclear thermal propulsion technology has the power to support a manned mission to Mars.
The company develops and manufactures naval nuclear propulsion, commercial nuclear components, commercial nuclear fuel, strategic nuclear materials, nuclear services, complex operations management, environmental management, medical isotopes, nuclear thermal propulsion, research test reactors, laboratory services, and other advanced technologies.
One of the main missions of BWXT is to contribute towards efforts to landing people on Mars with NASA within the decade. They are looking to reduce the development time-frame and costs for an in-space flight demonstration evaluation project. This will eventually lead to the design to propel a spacecraft from Earth's orbit to Mars and back.
