On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:33, Jeremy Fowler wrote:

> 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.

Actually, there have been a number of reactor-powered spacecraft,
including skylab if I'm not mistaken.  Not sure about Mir.