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Thread: Nuclear propulsion - political suicide
# 15986 bycfrjlr@... on Nov. 5, 2001, 9 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
An excellent review of space nuclear accidents is presented in this article from the sumnmer 1997 issue of
Earth Island journal.
The tally of space nuclear accidents/failures is presently six from Russia and three from USA.
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BTW, although there is no Pitchblende Uranium ore in space (most likely), the Moon has deposits of material called KREEP which is somewhat enhanced in Thorium and (IIRC) Uranium.
Cheers,
Charles R.