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Re: Nuclear Powered aircraft



Joel Baumbaugh <baumbaug@nosc.mil> wrote, in part:
> 
 After all, where do you flight test a nuclear
> reactor?

The Russians flew many nuclear reactors. They powered radar satellites.
At least two crashed and burned, one in Canada in 1978. The rest of the
reactors are still up there.

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