Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:03:03 -0500
From: mark <whitroth@5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Exploring the Universe with Nuclear Power
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@KeithLynch.net>

YES!

Excerpt:
In fact, according to presentation made by Doctor Michael G. Houts of the
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center back in October of 2014, nuclear power
and propulsion have the potential to be \342\200\234game changing technologies for
space exploration.\342\200\235

As the Marshall Space Flight Center\342\200\231s manager of nuclear thermal research,
Dr. Houts is well versed in the benefits it has to offer space
exploration. According to the presentation he and fellow staffers made, a
fission reactor can be used in a rocket design to create Nuclear Thermal
Propulsion (NTP). In an NTP rocket, uranium or deuterium reactions are
used to heat liquid hydrogen inside a reactor, turning it into ionized
hydrogen gas (plasma), which is then channeled through a rocket nozzle to
generate thrust.
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<http://www.universetoday.com/118431/exploring-the-universe-with-nuclear-power/>

       mark