/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10764358
nuclear pulse propulsion's cooler. It's sort of like a pornstar though, nice to fap to, but not exactly marriage material. LANTR on the other hand, now that's marriage material. Nuclear bomb propulsion can take off from the ground, but LANTR can do it with much, much, much less release of radioactivity. LANTR can potentially be reusable too. Although you have to invest in some pretty interesting hardware for handling it on the ground because you can't shield the whole reactor. As in people can't get anywhere close to it while its on the ground, the radiation damages machines close by, and you have to clear away dead birds and bugs. The US airforce actually did some pretty fun experiments on this for their nuclear aircraft program with an unshielded 10 MW reactor.