No Downsides for Nuclear Powered Spacecraft for Mars and Beyond
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6VXRP)
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the magnetosphere of the earth. The reasons not to use Project Orion or to not massively rely on nuclear power fade away on ...