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HTRE-2, left, and HTRE-3, right, on display at the Experimental Breeder Reactor I facility. The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program and the preceding Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project worked to develop a nuclear propulsion system for aircraft. The United States Army Air Forces initiated Project NEPA on May 28 ...
HTRE-2, a nuclear aircraft engine prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory Experimental HTRE reactors for nuclear aircraft (HTRE-2 left and HTRE-3 right), on display at Idaho National Laboratory near Arco, Idaho. Two General Electric J87 turbojet engines were
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory researched and developed nuclear aircraft engines. Two shielded reactors powered two General Electric J87 turbojet engines to nearly full thrust. Two experimental reactors, HTRE-2 with its turbojet engines intact, and HTRE-3 with its engines removed, are at the EBR-1 facility south of the Idaho National ...
Did HTRE 2 become HTRE 3 or was HTRE 2 the same hardware as HTRE 1 with a different core? --Wtshymanski 22:23, 3 June 2010 (UTC) The J-47 engines were horizontal on both assemblies. They had to link up with fixzed ducting that led to an exhaust stack. It is the reactor vessels that are vertical (HTRE 1&2) and horizontal (HTRE-3).
The project included experiments, including high temperature and engine tests collectively called the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiments: HTRE-1, HTRE-2 and HTRE-3 at the National Reactor Test Station (now Idaho National Laboratory) as well as an experimental high-temperature molten-salt reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory – the ARE.
3 File:NB-36H with B-50, 1955 - DF-SC-83-09332.jpeg to appear as POTD soon 1 comment 4 Needs more explanation for why there are both jet engines and propellers.
The Convair X-6 was a proposed experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft.The project was to use a Convair B-36 bomber as a testbed aircraft, and though one NB-36H was modified during the early stages of the project, the program was canceled before the actual X-6 and its nuclear reactor engines were completed.
The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use it to power the aircraft. Nicknamed "The Crusader", [ 1 ] it was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program (ANP for short), to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber . [ 2 ]