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Daily News Stuff 23 July 2024

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  • The US is all-in on nuclear rockets.  For realsies.  (Ars Technica)

    The article starts with a review of past US experiments with nuclear rockets:
    The first of those reactors was called Kiwi-A. The test done on July 1, 1959, proved that the concept worked, but there were devils in the details. Vibrations caused by the flow of hydrogen damaged the reactor after just five minutes of operation at a relatively meek 70 megawatts. The temperature reached 2,683 K, which caused hydrogen corrosion in the rods and expelled parts of the core through the nozzle, a problem known as "shedding."
    Shedding, also known as "Fuck this I'm moving to Bouvet Island and you can contact me by albatross".

    The primary impetus for this renewed interest despite some issues with past attempts is China's growing space industry.  Nuclear rockets make far more efficient use of the reaction mass than chemical rockets, but are only practical for general use once you pass a certain size - about the size of SpaceX's starship - because you can't make small nuclear reactors.

    Not unless you are willing to kill everyone who works on the project, anyway.


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