Project Pluto (nuclear propelled, nuclear weapons delivery system) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

There were a lot of crazy ideas during the 50s and 60s. In the same vein as this there was some investigation into the use of gaseous core nuclear thermal rockets and power reactors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb

https://atomic-skies.blogspot.com/2016/07/burning-gas.html?m=1

Extremely toxic, extremely radioactive, extremely oxidizing (CIF3 can set concrete on fire!), extremely hot, and under extremely high pressure (2500+ PSI!). What's not to love?

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