Nuclear Jet Engines

[Lewis]

Boeing just patented a jet engine powered by lasers and nuclear explosions (BA)
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/boeing-just-patented-jet-engine-powered-lasers-nuclear-212700391.html

 

[th1b.taylor]

Wow! I would fly it, never sit down for refueling.

 

[Brother Mike]

Pretty cool. Airplane fuel is just crazy. Clean up after one of these things crash through??

 

[th1b.taylor]

Most likely not any more trouble than when the Nuclear Element fell off the truck between DC and Baltimore in '67 or '68, don't recall which. Fissionable material has always been around us and the time must be watched on high grade, it's not as bad as the movies and the news hawks make it out to be.

 

[Brother Mike]

Most likely not any more trouble than when the Nuclear Element fell off the truck between DC and Baltimore in '67 or '68, don't recall which. Fissionable material has always been around us and the time must be watched on high grade, it's not as bad as the movies and the news hawks make it out to be.

That's good to know. I wonder if Nuke powered cars would be possible, save lots on gas.

Mike

 

[th1b.taylor]

That's good to know. I wonder if Nuke powered cars would be possible, save lots on gas.

Mike

Yes, our Carriers and Subs go for decades without refueling and they do not run on weapons grade, the dangerous stuff that it is best to not be around for more than a short time and it might be, for safety, that the badges be worn when handling either grade but the time on fuel grade is nothing similar to weapons grade. At least it wasn't in the sixties.

 

[Brother Mike]

Yes, our Carriers and Subs go for decades without refueling and they do not run on weapons grade, the dangerous stuff that it is best to not be around for more than a short time and it might be, for safety, that the badges be worn when handling either grade but the time on fuel grade is nothing similar to weapons grade. At least it wasn't in the sixties.

Ummm, then cars can also, unless the known method would make the sluggish to start and stop. Sometimes I wonder if technology is not held back, so someone can keep on raking in the money on a monopoly they created with others.

Mike.

 

[jasonc]

Cores are replaced every five years.remember planes can crash

 

[Obadiah]

Someone sent me a link once on a design of a nuclear powered car. It was essentially a reactor that boiled water and the engine was a modern steam engine. I can't remember what the reactor used for fuel now... but it was something that was a lot safer than what's used in nuclear power plants. And there was only a tiny bit of it in the reactor anyway. It doesn't take a lot to power a car. There was no start up waiting period because the reactor just kept the boiler hot 24/7. I'll try to find the link again...

 

[th1b.taylor]

Cores are replaced every five years.remember planes can crash

If that is so the Military Channel doesn't know of what they speak. According to them the last Carrier we launched is good for at least thirty years. And yes, planes crash and cars wreck but we are talking about the same fuel a sailor can spend thirty years working next to.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Ummm, then cars can also, unless the known method would make the sluggish to start and stop. Sometimes I wonder if technology is not held back, so someone can keep on raking in the money on a monopoly they created with others.

Mike.

Actually Mike the driving force produced to drive the power plant in a car would be steam produced from the heat of the reactor in a car and Steam Cars are great transportation. One of the late night stars has one that is wood or coal fired. The Steam Engine is very powerful.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Someone sent me a link once on a design of a nuclear powered car. It was essentially a reactor that boiled water and the engine was a modern steam engine. I can't remember what the reactor used for fuel now... but it was something that was a lot safer than what's used in nuclear power plants. And there was only a tiny bit of it in the reactor anyway. It doesn't take a lot to power a car. There was no start up waiting period because the reactor just kept the boiler hot 24/7. I'll try to find the link again...

I wish I had read your post before I posted the one just ahead of this one. Yes, the engines will be safe to use. I quite keeping up with this line of thought back in the eighties.

 

[Obadiah]

If that is so the Military Channel doesn't know of what they speak. According to them the last Carrier we launched is good for at least thirty years. And yes, planes crash and cars wreck but we are talking about the same fuel a sailor can spend thirty years working next to.

Getting in a crash doesn't mean the fuel always gets exposed either. A reactor so small it would power a car could be built so strong it would be bullet proof without any serious addition of weight or cost. We already drive around with what, 20 gallons or more of flammable, explosive gasoline in a *plastic* tank and we hardly think twice about it.

 

[Obadiah]

Ahhh, this was it: The Thorium reactor for use in cars.

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/atomic-car-revisited-thorium-could-power-vehicle-100-140052713.html

Of course, I ignored the idiots stupid comments about Jesus vs Thor at the end.

 

[jasonc]

Getting in a crash doesn't mean the fuel always gets exposed either. A reactor so small it would power a car could be built so strong it would be bullet proof without any serious addition of weight or cost. We already drive around with what, 20 gallons or more of flammable, explosive gasoline in a *plastic* tank and we hardly think twice about it.

a few thousand feet of falling does wonders. uhm I have punched a hole in a plastic gas tank the only way for gas to ignite is fuel and heat. most accidents to have both all the time.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Getting in a crash doesn't mean the fuel always gets exposed either. A reactor so small it would power a car could be built so strong it would be bullet proof without any serious addition of weight or cost. We already drive around with what, 20 gallons or more of flammable, explosive gasoline in a *plastic* tank and we hardly think twice about it.

Yes sir, and I do believe, from my experiences that folks have no idea the potential force an empty or a half full tank of Gasoline carries, much more dangerous than the kernel of fuel a reactor in a car would be. Hollywood, the News Media and the dumbing down process has produced a generation of cowards, and they cow at many things, sad, indeed.