Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions'

Re:Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' by ars on Monday October 27, 2008 @05:22PM (#345607)

Did you read it? They were not powered by the reactor. They just carried a reactor on board.

Actually powering a jet from a reactor is a lot more complicated.

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Re:Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' by ComputerGuru on Monday October 27, 2008 @07:05PM (#345731)

Did you read my comment before replying to it?

albeit the fact that they the B-36 bombers themselves ______were powered by kerosene_______ despite the availablility of nuclear power since it wasn't intended to be anything more than a proof-of-concept flight

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Re:Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' by ars on Monday October 27, 2008 @08:27PM (#345827)

I did read your comment, but it made no sense, so I assumed it was a typo.

You wrote: "proved beyond the shadow of the doubt that it's both doable and feasible" - and at the same time that they didn't do it.

So how did they prove "beyond the shadow of the doubt" something they didn't even do?

That made so little sense I assumed you didn't realize they didn't power the engines from the reactor.

Edit: maybe you don't realize that carrying the nuclear plant is the easy part (heavy lift vehicles exist after all), powering the engines is the very hard part.

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