nuclear power

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http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/US_Nuclear_Lab_Building_Micro_Reactor_That_Can_Power_an_Army_Brigade_999.html

The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...

Putin announcerd that the Russians are developing a nuclear powered strategic cruise missile. Presumably it would be armed with a nuclear warhead since flying an open cycle reactor over anyone would probably be a nuclear attack anyway...

Couldn't find an existing thread for this. http://m.aviationweek.com/space/nasa-keeping-nuclear-thermal-option-open-mars

In the introductory notes to 'Prelude to Space' Arthur C. Clarke stated that he based the propulsion system for his spacecraft on a real project, a nuclear ramjet engine being worked on by Rolls-Royce, which he referred to as the "Rolls-Royce Dragon". I have no idea if it was a real project or...

The first commercial nuclear reactor in the United States, Shippingport, was derived from a reactor originally designed for a cancelled nuclear powered aircraft carrier. I haven't been able to find any information on this aircraft carrier, and I don't think the Shippingport reactor is related to...

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20150014581 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160405-the-space-submarine-hunting-the-solar-system-for-aliens

Proposed design for a Multi-Mission bus using ion engines for propulsion. Suggested missions included an untargeted asteroid belt flyby, a targeted asteroid belt flyby, a Jupiter flyby (With or without use of gravity assist to reach an out-of-ecliptic orbit following the flyby.) and a...

If I may put in a shameless self plug for a moment: I have finished a companion volume to 'A Vertical Empire' called 'An Atomic Empire'. This deals with the British atomic programme from Windscale onwards, dealing with not only Windscale but the atomic weapons programme and the nuclear power...

Tito's Nuclear Legacy by William C. Potter, Djuro Miljanic & Ivo Slaus Published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists http://www.bullatomsci.org March/April 2000 Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 63-70 © 2000 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Yugoslavia--at least in the eyes of...

Hello, I know we have some brilliant and experienced engineers here on the forum. I was wondering if you guys could advise me about solutions to a problem. The goal is a nuclear powered airship. The reactor is on a separate balloon so that distance can act as shielding. The problem is that the...

http://atomic-skies.blogspot.ie/2012/07/nukes-on-ice.html (Drawings and pictures at link)

Via Slashdot: http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-plutonium-production-space-fuel-130314.htm

After the cancellation of Voyager(Mars) in 1967 NASA started up a new series of studies to come up with a spacecraft for the 1973 launch opportunity. This Martin-Marietta designed soft-lander of 1969 was intended to put the maximum payload weight on the surface of Mars using a mission profile...

Hi I attach a file with a non-technical summary of research done at the University of Florida on a gas/vapor core nuclear reactor with MHD conversion for space propulsion. A liquid cooled version with MHD propulsion for navy operations is also presented. If Generation IV reactors are 2...

while reading of Mr. Nozette unfortunate ending... http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/03/sandia_drone.html http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/sand-uav.pdf

From here: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=8110 Showing the radiation levels around a NERVA. Note that the magnitudes (ten-to-the-holycrap power) are shown as faint large background numerals.

USAF interplanetary spacecraft concept model using Space Power Unit Reactor (SPUR) found on EBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Spacecraft-Concept-Contractor-Desk-Model-NASA-USAF_W0QQitemZ110459822900QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b7eb2334 Description from EBay: