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Indias space agency plans nuclear engine for upcoming .for upcoming space exploration missions after chandradayaan 3

I predicted many years ago that all the nuclear powers would be future space powers.
only viable nuclear engine is a fusion engine. The west also has plans for the same. India is lowkey Tokamak researcher that many people don't know. see SST-1. but the west is also looking into fission powered rockets which is totally garbage. India should not look that way.
 

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only viable nuclear engine is a fusion engine. The west also has plans for the same. India is lowkey Tokamak researcher that many people don't know. see SST-1. but the west is also looking into fission powered rockets which is totally garbage. India should not look that way.
The article is about RTEGs, not thrusting engines
 

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only viable nuclear engine is a fusion engine. The west also has plans for the same. India is lowkey Tokamak researcher that many people don't know. see SST-1. but the west is also looking into fission powered rockets which is totally garbage. India should not look that way.
fusion reactors are not developed yet. This would be a fission engine.
Fusion rocket engine after development may take decades afterwards??
why would fission be garbage?? would still be a leap over chemical rockets.
 

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only viable nuclear engine is a fusion engine. The west also has plans for the same. India is lowkey Tokamak researcher that many people don't know. see SST-1. but the west is also looking into fission powered rockets which is totally garbage. India should not look that way.
And your basis for saying this is ?
 

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And you basis for saying this is ?
fission is inherently dangerous. it will absolutely do more harm than good. My basis is the general understanding of fissile material and their adverse effect on the environment. An engine failure would result in catastrophic radioactivity in the atmosphere. Fission is inherently shit.
 

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My basis is the general understanding of fissile material and their adverse effect on the environment. An engine failure would result in catastrophic radioactivity in the atmosphere. Fission is inherently shit.
How about a THORIUM fuelled fission engine????
 

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fusion reactors are not developed yet. This would be a fission engine.
Fusion rocket engine after development may take decades afterwards??
why would fission be garbage?? would still be a leap over chemical rockets.
nope! a fission rocket failure would be catastrophic for the atmophere.
 

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only viable nuclear engine is a fusion engine. The west also has plans for the same. India is lowkey Tokamak researcher that many people don't know. see SST-1. but the west is also looking into fission powered rockets which is totally garbage. India should not look that way.
Article is about RTEGs and RHUs, not science fiction nuclear engines (r*ndi Indian media fooling people as usual).
 

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fission is inherently dangerous. it will absolutely do more harm than good. My basis is the general understanding of fissile material and their adverse effect on the environment. An engine failure would result in catastrophic radioactivity in the atmosphere. Fission is inherently shit.
Bruh.. nobody is trying to launch a nuclear powered rocket from the ground . They will send it to a high orbit before starting it. Fission engines already exist and fusion is always 20 years away
 

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yes or whatever other isotope that can be used?
Thorium-232 is the only naturally occurring isotope of thorium, is a fissionable material but not a fissile one, meaning that it needs high-energy neutrons to undergo fission splitting of atomic nuclei which releases energy that is used for electricity generation. However, when irradiated, thorium-232 undergoes a series of nuclear reactions, eventually forming uranium-233, a fissile material that can be burned up as fuel in nuclear reactors.

So, nope!
 

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Bruh.. nobody is trying to launch a nuclear powered rocket from the ground . They will send it to a high orbit before starting it. Fission engines already exist and fusion is always 20 years away
I for once want a clean air breathing plasma propulsion jet engine that will work in both in and outside of atmosphere. its pretty simple, take in atmosphere, bombard with microwave and turn it into cold plasma, then use magnetic coils to eject that plasma out nozzles with high thrust. it should have comparable specific impulse to an IC jet engine.

of course you need a fuck load of electricity for that. Fission can get it done, but its dangerous. Fusion is Future.
 

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