Re: Running multiple HET in parallel?
From: Michael Smith (smithm_at_SPAMBLOCKnetapps.com.au.retro.com)
Date: 02/24/05
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To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:06:13 +0000
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:04:20 +1100
Malcolm Street <mstreet@internode.on.net> wrote:
> I'm a great fan of Stephen Baxter, but his novel "Voyage" really
> doesn't do the NERVA nuclear-thermal rocket program justice; it was
> both saner and more successful than he makes out.
So am I. IMHO the books he has written which explore the current or near
future space program have a more realistic idea of what is possible than
just about anything I have read. Yes the bit in Voyage about the Nerva
did somewhat put me off the idea.
| Of course the problem was that bits of engine
| got spat out the back as well, but it was acceptable by '60's
| standards. Of course you'd have to be more careful now.
The real problem is that it is a partly open loop system. No other
nuclear power system routinely exhausts significant quantities of
radioactive material. I agree that a modern system would have to be more
careful but I think this would take the design back to the drawing
board.
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