A STUDY OF THE NUCLEAR GASEOUS REACTOR ROCKET
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A detailed study is presented of some fundamental problems connected with the realization of a nuclear gaseous reactor rocket engine. The virtue of such a propulsion scheme is that the energy of the fission fragments is transferred directly to the propellant. Thus the heat-transfer problem of the conventional heat exchanger type of nuclear rocket is avoided and very high values of the specific impulse (>1000 sec) might be achieved. The discussion centers mainly around contaainment of the propel…
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Date:
October 31, 1957
Creator:
Fox, R.H.
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