Nuclear Power to get around the solar system

[andrewmdodson]

This is the basis of what we will need to get around the solar system in a reasonable time frame. Good stuff!

In a nutshell, you accelerate the ions which are the product of fissioning of nuclear fuels. The nuclear fuel is maintained in a confined dusty plasma while it reacts.

[zapkitty]

andrewmdodson wrote: This is the basis of what we will need to get around the solar system in a reasonable time frame. Good stuff!

In a nutshell, you accelerate the ions which are the product of fissioning of nuclear fuels. The nuclear fuel is maintained in a confined dusty plasma while it reacts.

Nope 🙂

… the document you attached is a actually a basic history of the old solid-core fission rockets.

No dusty plasma fission and no fusion.

[andrewmdodson]

heck, The actual PDF I wanted to post is over 5 MB… forum limitations!!

[zapkitty]

andrewmdodson wrote: heck, The actual PDF I wanted to post is over 5 MB… forum limitations!!

Was it this one?
http://www.rbsp.info/rbs/RbS/PDF/aiaa05.pdf

[ikanreed]

Wasn’t focus fusion a byproduct of a NASA fusion rocket research grant, or have I misremembered my history?

[zapkitty]

ikanreed wrote: Wasn’t focus fusion a byproduct of a NASA fusion rocket research grant, or have I misremembered my history?

NASA was researching the Dense Plasma Focus concept as a high-efficiency fusion drive when the Halliburton administration took power in 2001 and purged any NASA fusion research that might inconvenience the grip the elites have on power sources.

A truly clean fusion space drive would be just too easy to adapt to use Earthside…

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