Tony Fredericks wrote:
> 35 years ago there was the low thrust NERVA (Nuclear Energy for Rocket
> Vehicle Applications). The program was cancelled before I graduated from
> high school in 1975.
>
> Tony Fredericks "Mind that bus!"
> Amateur Rocket Scientist "What Bus?"
> E.R.P.S. Member SPLAT!! - Arnold Rimmer
>
NERVA wasn't a gas core system. NERVA was basically a standard nuclear
reactor and shielding configured to use hydrogen as a "moderator"
thereby heating it and then "flushing" it through a rocket nozzle.
Michael
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