[ERPS] Nuclear gas core

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Henry Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The big trick
> is maintaining a
> reasonably stable blob of very hot uranium-rich gas
> without having it mix
> with the hydrogen too much (because you don't want
> to lose fission fuel
> out the exhaust) or melt through the walls.
Actually, the big trick has been getting political
approval for developing and launching "new-kuu-lar"
engines, especially when there is a danger that their
exhaust would be rather more radioactive than most
rocket exhaust.
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