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ELF thrusters are being taken seriously by NASA, getting funding from the same program as the X3 Hall thruster and VASIMR.
>/sfg/ once again has impeccably patrician taste

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190004993/downloads/20190004993.pdf

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There's some guy proposing a fusion variant of the NSWR with Li6D (Lithium-6 Deuteride) instead of uranium salts. It is in fact a torch ship, able to do 1g acceleration for weeks at a time. You could do a grand tour of all the planets in less than half a year.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#lswr