Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project

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• Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion — (ANP) was a United States Air Force program which worked to develop a nuclear propulsion system for aircraft. It was the follow on to the USAF s Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA). NEPA was launched in May, 1946, and operated… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear propulsion — includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that fulfil the promise of the Atomic Age by using some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. Contents 1 Surface ships and submarines 2 Cars 3 Aircraft …   Wikipedia

• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) — An artist s conception of the NASA reference design for the Project Orion spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion. Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the… …   Wikipedia

• Project Halitosis — was a 1965 undertaking by the United States Air Force to study the amount of radioactive gases released from their experimental nuclear powered bomber program. The heavily modified B 36H bomber contained a small, open circuit nuclear reactor to… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear aircraft — This article is about Aircraft nuclear propulsion. For the US Air Force program, see Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion. For the crystallographic feature known as an atomic plane, see crystallography. A nuclear aircraft is an aircraft powered by nuclear …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear marine propulsion — is propulsion of a ship by a nuclear reactor. Naval nuclear propulsion is propulsion that specifically refers to naval warships (see Nuclear navy). Only a very few experimental civil nuclear ships have been built; the elimination of fossil fuel… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear pulse propulsion — An artist s conception of the Project Orion basic spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Nuclear pulse propulsion (or External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion, as it is termed in one recent NASA document[1]) is a proposed method of spacecraft… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear thermal rocket — Sketch of nuclear thermal rocket …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear electric rocket — In a nuclear electric rocket, nuclear thermal energy is changed into electrical energy that is used to power one of the electrical propulsion technologies. Technically the powerplant is nuclear, not the propulsion system, but the terminology is… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear salt-water rocket — A nuclear salt water rocket (or NSWR) is a proposed type of nuclear thermal rocket designed by Robert Zubrin that would be fueled by water bearing dissolved salts of Plutonium or U235. These would be stored in tanks that would prevent a critical… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear photonic rocket — In a nuclear photonic rocket, a nuclear reactor would generate such high temperatures that the blackbody radiation from the reactor would provide significant thrust. The disadvantage is that it takes a lot of power to generate a small amount of… …   Wikipedia