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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 ...
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 ...
In June 2019 I contacted the owner of oft-cited aviation-history.com article on nuclear powered aviation by Raul Colon, which had incorrect captions on its photos. The owner agreed to look into this. As of December 2019 the owner's update the article/captions based on the INL document cited here.
A molten-salt reactor (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary nuclear reactor coolant and/or the fuel is a mixture of molten salt with a fissile material. Two research MSRs operated in the United States in the mid-20th century.
Two General Electric J87 turbojet engines were successfully powered to nearly full thrust using two shielded reactors. Two experimental engines complete with reactor systems ( HTRE-3 and HTRE-1 , which was modified and renamed HTRE-2 ) are located at the EBR-1 facility south of the Idaho National Laboratory .
Like the name implies, though, "Nano" Nuclear is going even smaller, focusing on microreactors producing as few as one to 20 megawatts (i.e., as little as 1/1,000 the size of a traditional nuclear ...
USS Nimitz (CVN-68), lead ship of the Nimitz-class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers A Delta-class nuclear-powered submarine. Nuclear-powered vessels are mainly military submarines, and aircraft carriers. [1] Russia is the only country that currently has nuclear-powered civilian surface ships, mainly icebreakers.
Fedorov nuclear plane: Fedorov Spaceplane/Helicopter concept Soviet Union: 1920s Hughes Interceptor: Hughes Aircraft Corporation: Interceptor United States: 1950s Lockheed CL-195: Lockheed Corporation United States: 1950s Lockheed CL-1201 [12] Lockheed Corporation: Transport United States: 1960s Lockheed L-248-3 [13] Lockheed Corporation United ...