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Re:NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclea... by ajross on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:50PM (#16991034)
Yes. Though cooling sails are relatively feasible. Assume you can cool to ~250K: the back of my envelope and a Stefan-Boltzmann constant cribbed blindly from wikipedia tells me that such a sail would radiate ~200W/m^2, which is very doable for a spacecraft with a 1kW power budget.

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