I seem to remember a couple years ago they invented a nuclear engine that was supposed to change everything. When they touched it off it blew up, killed a bunch of top scientists, and irradiated the whole area. We haven’t heard much about that since so I’m not holding my breath about this “game changer”.
“I seem to remember a couple years ago they invented a nuclear engine that was supposed to change everything. When they touched it off it blew up, killed a bunch of top scientists, and irradiated the whole area. We haven’t heard much about that since so I’m not holding my breath about this “game changer”.”
That was a nuclear powered ramjet cruise missile the 9M730 Burevestnik. They claim to have had a successful test flight in October 2023 the radiation sniffers went up to see what the exhaust plume had in it giving an idea of the fuel type and reactor spectrum used. The results of those flights is still classified but it caused a stir in the MIC community so take what you will from that.
We had project Pluto in the 1970s it worked back then it just leaves a toxic radioactive plume everywhere it flys so the USA abandoned it for Trident subs. The weapon itself is a radiological weapon leaving a 1000+ REM fallout trail over it’s flight path than when it drops it last warhead it kamikaze into a final target area scattering a whole reactors worth of melting down fuel that cannot be turned off this is most assuredly a fast spectrum reactor and no moderator to scatter only PU or HEU that’s melting down by design as it fly and crashes. It’s a nasty weapon one the USA saw as too dirty to even think of using. They could spike the fuel with cobalt and make for even more of a rad trail one with long lived hard gramma rays truly diabolical killing machines.