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The centrifugally separated uranium gas from hydrogen
fuel style engine was discussed earlier. This engine
sounded efficient, but with very unsavory failure
modes, especially if used for earth launched vehicles.
If such an engine ever crashed, wouldn't all of the
uranium gas just leak out the exh
Hi ... This from slashdot.org
Science: NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10
SpacePosted by michael on Tuesday February 25, @10:39PM
from the klingon-target-practice dept.
Soft writes "Another Energizer Bunny has finally given out: Pioneer
10's generators have decayed to the point that DSN can no longer de
<< The last time this [Gas Core nuclear] was seriously worked on -- I heard a
talk by Steve Howe (of LANL) in 1996 -- they weren't sure which was best,
although they seemed to be favoring a concept with a toroidal core. >>
Well, something in '96 updates me on this subject ;-) I didn't realize
