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with nuclear thermal and nuclear electric engines which could be more efficient than conventional rocket engines. Nuclear-powered vessels are mainly military...24 KB (2,460 words) - 07:27, 13 April 2024
A nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) is a type of thermal rocket where the heat from a nuclear reaction replaces the chemical energy of the propellants in a...57 KB (7,037 words) - 06:43, 4 June 2024- A nuclear electric rocket (more properly nuclear electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion system where thermal energy from a nuclear reactor...9 KB (935 words) - 01:06, 23 April 2024
- In a traditional nuclear photonic rocket, an onboard nuclear reactor would generate such high temperatures that the blackbody radiation from the reactor...8 KB (1,130 words) - 07:16, 21 September 2023
that use nuclear power for space propulsion systems include the nuclear electric rocket (nuclear powered ion thruster(s)), the radioisotope rocket, and radioisotope...31 KB (3,499 words) - 01:08, 23 April 2024
design requires fusion power technology beyond current capabilities, and much larger and more complex rockets. Fusion nuclear pulse propulsion is one...16 KB (1,768 words) - 02:44, 16 June 2024
Develop Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft". Media - Lockheed Martin. Retrieved 13 April 2024. "NASA has sights set on Mars with help from a nuclear rocket engine"...20 KB (2,158 words) - 10:08, 16 June 2024
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion...246 KB (22,928 words) - 07:39, 13 June 2024- The nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin. In place of traditional chemical propellant...11 KB (1,393 words) - 06:54, 4 June 2024
A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy. The intention was to produce a jet engine that would...19 KB (2,005 words) - 23:48, 15 May 2024
mid-1950s. Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. A design was formed at General Atomics during the late 1950s and...27 KB (2,922 words) - 14:48, 27 April 2024
NERVA (redirect from Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application)reoriented to producing a nuclear powered upper stage for NASA's Saturn V Moon rocket. Reactors were tested at very low power before being shipped to Jackass...88 KB (10,890 words) - 20:07, 12 June 2024- through a rocket nozzle to produce thrust. Steam rockets are usually pressure fed, but more complex designs using solar energy or nuclear energy have...6 KB (656 words) - 21:17, 31 December 2023
- which is then exhausted through a rocket nozzle to produce thrust. They are similar in nature to nuclear thermal rockets such as NERVA, but are considerably...5 KB (651 words) - 01:04, 23 April 2024
- photon rockets are proposed to be powered by onboard generators, as in the nuclear photonic rocket. The standard textbook case of such a rocket is the...11 KB (1,667 words) - 16:21, 7 June 2024
the Solar System (with nuclear power), but is insufficient for interstellar travel. An electric rocket with an external power source (transmissible through...20 KB (1,982 words) - 05:41, 29 May 2024
conventional nuclear thermal rocket. The pulsed nuclear thermal rocket is a bimodal rocket able to work in a stationary (at constant nominal power as in a...15 KB (2,282 words) - 09:15, 7 January 2024- The fission-fragment rocket is a rocket engine design that directly harnesses hot nuclear fission products for thrust, as opposed to using a separate fluid...13 KB (1,587 words) - 01:07, 23 April 2024
- related electrically powered spacecraft propulsion concepts are the electrodeless plasma thruster, the microwave arcjet rocket, and the pulsed inductive...30 KB (3,202 words) - 10:34, 12 December 2023
Jackass Flats (category Nuclear weapon stubs)into Area 14 and Area 26.[citation needed] It was the test site of nuclear-powered rocket engines during project Project Rover and NERVA.: 109 Beatty, Nevada–California...2 KB (206 words) - 12:29, 29 May 2024
- Nuclear weapons are explosive devices that derive their destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion
- fear in the 21st century. And as nuclear power--as a nuclear power, as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral
- the movement opposes nuclear power, but some other issues that may be taken up by anti-nuclear groups are: opposition to nuclear weapons, weapons using