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Why would a nuclear powered spaceship needs to wait a few days before restarting the reactor engine?
Set some 50 years in the future, every spaceship in space is powered by a nuclear powered reactor and most of them came equipped with an ion propulsion engine for acceleration. I noticed that every ...
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Why wouldn't my nuclear spaceships eject spent fuel?
In the year 2069AD, a spaceship is transporting hundreds of people in cryogenic sleep to a distant star. The spaceship engine is a nuclear fission reactor and its thruster is based on an ion drive for ...
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Neutron bomb vs Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR)
A spaceship like this is traveling in the space:
Let's say, that its 100 meters long. Its crew module have 5 cm of lead shielding, the 80 m long propellant tank is full of liquid hydrogen, and at the ...
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Nuclear rockets and EMPs
Nuclear rockets, or as I like to think of them, "half way between a continuous small atomic explosion and reactor whose front fell off". There are many variants, and my aliens are using relative ...
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