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Reactor [submarine-based nuclear ramjet] Startup (1962)
In surface ships and submarines
Many military submarines, aircraft carriers and, owing to crude oil prices and emissions, a growing number of large civilian surface ships[citation needed], especially icebreakers, use nuclear reactors as their power plants (see nuclear marine propulsion for civil use and nuclear navy for military use).
Proposed and theorized nuclear rocket propulsion
Various types of nuclear propulsion have been proposed, and some of them tested, for spacecraft applications:
Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion
Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rockets conduct nuclear fission reactions similar to those safely employed at nuclear power plants including submarines. The energy is used to heat the liquid hydrogen propellant. Advocates of nuclear powered spacecraft point out that at the time of launch, there is almost no radiation released from the nuclear reactors. The nuclear-powered rockets are not used to lift off the Earth. Nuclear thermal rockets can provide great performance advantages compared to chemical propulsion systems. Nuclear power sources could also be used to provide the spacecraft with electrical power for operations and scientific instrumentation.[1]
Bussard ramjet
Fission-fragment rocket
Fission sail
Fusion rocket
Gas core reactor rocket
Nuclear electric rocket
Nuclear photonic rocket
Nuclear pulse propulsion
Nuclear salt-water rocket
Nuclear thermal rocket
Radioisotope rocket
Attention: very technical!
Thanks to Rockhound57 :)
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