Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program and the preceding Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project worked to develop a nuclear propulsion...
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Nuclear propulsion includes a wide variety of propulsion methods that use some form of nuclear reaction as their primary power source. The idea of using...
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Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project, which conducted studies until the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program replaced NEPA in 1951...
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Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for...
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Below is a list of nuclear powered aircraft and concepts: Trakimavičius, Lukas. "The Future Role of Nuclear Propulsion in the Military" (PDF). NATO Energy...
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Convair NB-36H (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
Crusader", it was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program (ANP for short), to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber. Its development...
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Convair X-6 (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
stay airborne for weeks at a time. In May 1946, the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project was started by the United States Army...
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as of 2024[update], no nuclear thermal rocket has flown. Whereas all early applications for nuclear thermal rocket propulsion used fission processes,...
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Huberdeau, Emmanuel (10 December 2020). "France selects nuclear propulsion option for future aircraft carrier". Janes. Archived from the original on 26 December...
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iteration on the preceding Type 003 aircraft carrier, and like the Type 003, it will feature an integrated electric propulsion system that will allow the operation...
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