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OT Came across this. Nuclear powered transport
May 02, 2017
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Interesting, sensible, and well informed piece. Not much about space, though:
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More detail on nuclear powered aircraft
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also
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and the following page
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Or Project Pluto
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I particularly liked this one, it went into quite a lot of interesting detail.
But there is a lot of difference between megawatt scale prototype reactors operating for a few years and 100 MW upwards with potential to run for 50 years. Extending life really does transform the economics.
I would not disagree that a lot of probably unjustified effort went into sodium cooled fast reactors, although I remain a bit skeptical about some of the claims currently made for thorium.
Interesting.
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