Yeah, this is a hypothetical we’ve known about since the 60’s, and this won’t be a reality for decades, if ever.
I take it this is not the one that runs on uranium and brinewater
You drink your nuclear brine water and like it
First heard about this from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, 1980.
Blablabla with no mention how it actually works.
It links a paper that explains it! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525002838
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It works for me. Maybe try clicking the link from inside the article?
Works now. Thank you.
I read some of it and decided to look up Nuclear Thermal Propulsion on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
Yay
I’d like to see these blowing up over Florida.