BREAKING: Experimental ‘isotope & liquid-propellant’ engine blast kills 5 Russian nuclear experts – Rosatom

I can't find anything specifically related to the description. just a liquid core nuclear thermal rocket

Liquid core

Liquid core nuclear engines are fueled by compounds of fissionable elements in liquid phase. A liquid-core engine is proposed to operate at temperatures above the melting point of solid nuclear fuel and cladding, with the maximum operating temperature of the engine instead being determined by the reactor pressure vessel and neutron reflector material. The higher operating temperatures would be expected to deliver specific impulse performance on the order of 1300 to 1500 seconds (12.8–14.8 kN·s/kg).[citation needed]

A liquid-core reactor would be extremely difficult to build with current technology. One major issue is that the reaction time of the nuclear fuel is much longer than the heating time of the working fluid. If the nuclear fuel and working fluid are not physically separated, this means that the fuel must be trapped inside the engine while the working fluid is allowed to easily exit through the nozzle. One possible solution is to rotate the fuel/fluid mixture at very high speeds to force the higher density fuel to the outside, but this would expose the reactor pressure vessel to the maximum operating temperature while adding mass, complexity, and moving parts.[citation needed]

An alternative liquid-core design is the nuclear salt-water rocket. In this design, water is the working fluid and also serves as the neutron moderator. The nuclear fuel is not retained which drastically simplifies the design. However, the rocket would discharge massive quantities of extremely radioactive waste and could only be safely operated well outside the Earth's atmosphere and perhaps even entirely outside earth's magnetosphere.[citation needed]

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WTF is this thing?

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my uncle told me they use a nukular reactor to heat up the air. and probly to run the compressors and fans too. then the heated air is jetted out the back. tadaaahh nukular powered jet engine

or that usa nuke strapped to that jap f35 belly before it crashed,that russians recovered with the sub that almost sunk.then usa torpedoed the plain so ruskies couldnt get the ufo tech off it.hmm i like my story better.

What is going on with the Russian military? Fires, explosions, submarine blows up, radiation just keeps happening.

I think they are covering things up.

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If the red-marked is true, the yellow-marked is a lie by the Russian authorities.

Rising radiation level within minutes, 47 km from an incident site, CANNOT be caused by the explosion of a conventional liquid-fuel rocket.
There MUST be another physical explanation for it.

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Russia needs to stop building nuclear powered stuff. They aren't intelligent enough to properly utilize the technology, and are putting the planet in unnecessary danger.


The cold reality is, America will soon have to weigh the radioactive fallout that would be caused by glassing Russia with nukes vs the inevitable fallout of Russia's continually failing nuclear science projects.

I'm taking this very seriously.

What's the biggest drawback of any vehicle? Truck, ship, plane, It doesn't matter. The biggest drawback is range. That's your largest metric of usefulness in the military. How far can it go before we have to refuel, or it has to come back?

If the Russians pull off nuclear jet engines, ALL of our shit ends up obsolete overnight and strategic peace ends up in the dumpster.

The tenuous balance of power is about to be upset.

Your uncle is a retard

"The radioisotope rocket is a type of thermal rocket engine that uses the heat generated by the decay of radioactive elements to heat a working fluid, which is then exhausted through a rocket nozzle to produce thrust."

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Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear-powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles. Two experimental engines were tested at the United States Department of Energy Nevada Test Site (NTS) in 1961 and 1964.[

The principle behind the nuclear ramjet was relatively simple: motion of the vehicle pushed air in through the front of the vehicle (ram effect), a nuclear reactor heated the air, and then the hot air expanded at high speed out through a nozzle at the back, providing thrust.

The notion of using a nuclear reactor to heat the air was fundamentally new. Unlike commercial reactors, which are surrounded by concrete, the Pluto reactor had to be small and compact enough to fly, but durable enough to survive a 7,000-mile (11,000 km) trip to a potential target. The nuclear engine could, in principle, operate for months, so a Pluto cruise missile could be left airborne for a prolonged time before being directed to carry out its attack.

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Was this the explosion incident that happened a few days back?

Smells like a BS cover story.

Yes indeed, and I am happy they are clearing up what went on. I wonder what kinds of isotopes are used, but they are probably not very long-lived and have a short half-life.

Russia is trying to build a nuclear powered rocket


Basically, no range or speed limitations. It doesnt use rocket fuel.

This is dangerous work.

Norway spiral