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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (47186)3/10/2004 8:42:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Kerry,

Re: I'll hazard a guess that we may soon see commercial airliners that run on nuclear power.

I've seen this solution proposed for space travel by Ted Taylor, who developed a generation of tactical nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. But that system was completely dirty, in that the propulsion was based on a series of explosions behind a thrust shield with the waste radiation simply spread in space.

How would an atmospherically confined nuclear engine work?
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