wikipedia - 14 Sep 2018
The Convair NB-36H was a bomber that carried a nuclear reactor. It was also known as the "Crusader".[1] It was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program, or the ANP, to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber. Its development ended with the cancellation of the ANP program.
POWER magazine - 02 Dec 2018
Over the years, the military-industrial complex has helped the commercial nuclear power sector evolve. Molten salt reactor designs may also need its help.
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Daily Mail - 28 Feb 2018
According to designer Oscar Vinals, from Barcelona, Spain, the craft will run primarily on a compact fusion reactor which can reach Mach 1.5 while producing ...
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Both the early and the not-so-early days of aviation were filled with inventors, visionaries, and dreamers. Men who dreamed of changing the world, with ...
Air & Space Magazine - 10 Mar 2017
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Thorium reactors, based on technology abandoned around the time of the Cold War, could provide an alternative to large nuclear reactors fuelled by solid ...
Daily Mail - 24 Sep 2014
The 1963 plan would have blown at hole through the Bristol Mountains in California, to make way for a road; It was part of Operation Plowshares, which sought ...
