Date: 20/03/2018 22:39:03
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1201761
Subject: Nuclear Rockets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNX65d-FBY

Looks like this dog didn’t hunt.
But it’s a terrific doco none the less.

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Date: 21/03/2018 09:27:37
From: captain_spalding
ID: 1201824
Subject: re: Nuclear Rockets

Google ‘ SLAM missile ‘ for a really nasty bit of nuclear powered missileering.

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Date: 21/03/2018 11:24:21
From: Cymek
ID: 1201832
Subject: re: Nuclear Rockets

captain_spalding said:


Google ‘ SLAM missile ‘ for a really nasty bit of nuclear powered missileering.

Read it then, lovely how the missile was unshielded and left a nice radiation wake

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Date: 21/03/2018 11:49:32
From: Spiny Norman
ID: 1201836
Subject: re: Nuclear Rockets

Project Orion was a vastly better thing. It would be a tad difficult to get into orbit with chemical rockets though. It could of course take-off under nuclear power but the fall-out would be unacceptable.

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Date: 21/03/2018 12:44:06
From: Woodie
ID: 1201842
Subject: re: Nuclear Rockets

Peak Warming Man said:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNX65d-FBY

Looks like this dog didn’t hunt.
But it’s a terrific doco none the less.

It’s pronounced nyoocyoolah.

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Date: 21/03/2018 14:00:36
From: captain_spalding
ID: 1201863
Subject: re: Nuclear Rockets

Cymek said:


captain_spalding said:

Google ‘ SLAM missile ‘ for a really nasty bit of nuclear powered missileering.

Read it then, lovely how the missile was unshielded and left a nice radiation wake

Not only that, but it was intended to fly so fast and so low that the shock wave of its passing by would be likely to flatten buildings and kill people.

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Date: 21/03/2018 16:54:53
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1201993
Subject: re: Nuclear Rockets

Spiny Norman said:


Project Orion was a vastly better thing. It would be a tad difficult to get into orbit with chemical rockets though. It could of course take-off under nuclear power but the fall-out would be unacceptable.

I agree with Spiny Nirman.

Did you notice my post about two months ago about a new brand of Nuclear Rockets? It’s the project that morphed into the nuclear power station for Mars settlement.

It’s in this thread. https://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/9456/

I thought at first that this was the same, but no, this is a collection of nuclear powered rocket engines. Skip to page 18 “Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) Enhances or Enables Advanced
Space Missions, Including Human Mars Missions” because before that is just an introduction to reactors in genera.

Space reactor design overview

Instead,

This is the techical document for the new mini reactor

Some pretty photos and schematics of internal details in there.

For the first link above – Nuclear Thermal Propulsion is essentially hydrogen monopropellant.

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