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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16200923" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>There were several nuclear propulsion studies, back in the day. Strategic Air Command dreamed of having something like an aircraft carrier that flew and didn't have to land for extended periods. Those died on the drawing board.</p><p></p><p>But one cruise missile that was powered and propelled by a nuke went so far as to have several of its nuclear-reactor engines tested on land in a series of tests. Project Pluto. It would have been a supersonic cruise missile. It was scrapped because it had no conventional shielding, to save weight, so in operation it was radioactive as hell, and the exhaust spewed radioactive fallout.</p><p></p><p>An interesting little bit of trivia:</p><p></p><p>To make it light enough, the reactor was made of a ceramic material. The company that made it was the Adolf Coors company. When Coors came to the US, his family was also big in glass and ceramic production.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16200923, member: 67454"] There were several nuclear propulsion studies, back in the day. Strategic Air Command dreamed of having something like an aircraft carrier that flew and didn't have to land for extended periods. Those died on the drawing board. But one cruise missile that was powered and propelled by a nuke went so far as to have several of its nuclear-reactor engines tested on land in a series of tests. Project Pluto. It would have been a supersonic cruise missile. It was scrapped because it had no conventional shielding, to save weight, so in operation it was radioactive as hell, and the exhaust spewed radioactive fallout. An interesting little bit of trivia: To make it light enough, the reactor was made of a ceramic material. The company that made it was the Adolf Coors company. When Coors came to the US, his family was also big in glass and ceramic production. [/QUOTE]
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