OT: Stellar tech to ignite big-bang project

[Jeremy Fowler]

Well, I was referring to the 1963 nuclear test-ban treaty.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH454.txt

However, Pres. Bush seems eager to use break it (what else is new). "President
George W. Bush may herald the new dawn of space travel with what is now expected
to be an announcement of design and construction of a nuclear-reactor fueled
space transportation vehicle in the upcoming State of the Union address to the
Congress and nation January 28, 2003."
http://www.mywisecounty.com/news/012003-1.htm

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/nuclear_power_030117.html

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> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of zscoundrel
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:01 AM
> To: Jonathan Hutchins
> Cc: Jeremy Fowler; Brian Densmore; Kclug at Kclug. Org
> Subject: Re: OT: Stellar tech to ignite big-bang project
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> The spy satellite the russians crashed in northern Canada back in the
> '70's had a nuke plant.
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> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:33, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
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> >>As far as energy - They already have small (under 300 MWe) nuclear reactors
> >>available. However, you might have some international political
> problems with
> >>putting a nuclear powered space craft into orbit. So far no such
> device (known
> >>to the public anyway) has been put into space.
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> > Actually, there have been a number of reactor-powered spacecraft,
> > including skylab if I'm not mistaken.  Not sure about Mir.
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> A marble traveling at 22,000 miles per hour would strike with as
> much force as a 400-pound safe traveling at just 60 miles per hour.
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