[ RadSafe ] Nuclear-reactor spacecraft poor for astronomy

[Jaro]

The New Scientist article might as well have stated that NASA's Mars rovers
aren't very good at exploring the cosmic microwave background or
relativistic lensing of high red-shift galaxies. Brilliant.

Another media report took a considerably less obtuse view of the US National
Research Council panel report :

Research Council Report Questions NASA Nuclear Propulsion Program
Aerospace Daily & Defense Report 08/31/2005
A new report from the National Academies' National Research Council
questions NASA's ongoing effort to develop spacecraft nuclear propulsion
systems, recommending the agency study the technologies in more depth to
ensure they will be worth the investment. "The committee is concerned that
NASA's current nuclear propulsion research and development activities may be
too narrowly focused on a single technology - nuclear-electric propulsion -
and believes that NASA's efforts might benefit from a broader consideration
of other technological approaches," the report says.
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...note the absence of any "Death knell" BS of the kind typical of New
Scientist magazine.

For additional information on the Prometheus project, see :

http://www.engr.utk.edu/nuclear/colloquia/Archive/
Space Nuclear Power
Dr. Edward Tomlinson
Advisory Engineer
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory
West Mifflin, PA
Presented October 20, 2004
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 Jaro Franta, P.Eng.
Tel.: (514) 875-3444
Montréal, Québec
frantaj at aecl.ca
web master, CNS Québec branch:
http://www.cns-snc.ca/branches/quebec/quebec.html

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http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7928


Nuclear-reactor spacecraft poor for astronomy


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