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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (47223)3/11/2004 12:38:56 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Hi Kerry,

Thanks for the amplification of your brief mention of nuclear powered flight.

If it happens, we'll probably see it first at Area 51.

The thing I can't get my head around is the fact that earth based nuclear plants are really nothing more than huge and vastly complicated steam boilers. The work of turning the turbines is done by steam. These plants operate on the same basic principle as was the case with steam locomotives which used wood to heat a steam kettle.

I can't quite see having this whole apparatus in flight. In submarines and nuclear powered aircraft carriers, there is the luxury of being able to displace all the weight of the apparatus. This wouldn't be the case for a heavier-than-air aircraft.

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Re: One of the guys apparently knows some stuff regarding NASA and rocketry, and he was saying that NASA already has nuclear capability to send small satellites hundreds of millions of miles in deep outer space before they lose the fuel source.

I've also read about this. There is, in fact, at least one if not more small outer solar system exploratory satellites which are powered for telemetry by small nuclear reactors. I don't recall if this is also serving for propulsive force.
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