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    Jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions

    America's Crazy Attempts to Build Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Ah, the Atomic Age, when nuclear energy seemed the ticket to a future of limitless possibilities. For a generation after 1945 the United States explored all kinds of nuclear propulsion concepts. Some, like naval power plants for subs...
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    Jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions

    Boeing just patented a jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions Last week, the US Patent and Trademark Office approved an application from Boeing's Robert Budica, James Herzberg, and Frank Chandler for a laser-and-nuclear driven airplane engine. With airplane makers constantly on...
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