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  2. Nuclear-powered aircraft - Wikipedia

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    A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy. The intention was to produce a jet engine that would heat compressed air with heat from fission, instead of heat from burning fuel. [ 1 ]

  3. Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion - Wikipedia

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    The United States Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) was a 2.5 MW th thermal-spectrum nuclear reactor experiment designed to attain a high power density and high output temperature for use as an engine in a nuclear-powered bomber aircraft. The advantage of a nuclear-powered aircraft over a conventionally-powered aircraft is that it could remain ...

  4. List of nuclear-powered aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of nuclear powered aircraft and concepts: Name or designation Manufacturer Role Nationality Period Notability 9M730 Burevestnik [1] [2] [3] [4]

  5. Convair NB-36H - Wikipedia

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    The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use it to power the aircraft. Nicknamed "The Crusader", [1] it was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program (ANP for short), to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber. [2]

  6. Lockheed CL-1201 - Wikipedia

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    The CL-1201 design project studied a nuclear-powered aircraft of extreme size, with a wingspan of 1,120 feet (340 m). [4] Had it been built, it would have had the largest wingspan of any airplane to date, [5] and certainly more than twice that of any aircraft of the 20th century.

  7. Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would give China's growing ...

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    The first American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was USS Enterprise, commissioned in 1961. All of US Navy's current carriers, which are a mix of Nimitz- and Ford-class carriers, are nuclear ...

  8. Tupolev Tu-95LAL - Wikipedia

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    The next stage in the development of a nuclear-powered bomber would have been the Tupolev Tu-119, a modified Tu-95, which would have been powered by both nuclear-fuelled and kerosene-fuelled turboprop engines: two Kuznetsov NK-14A nuclear-fuelled engines inboard, fed with heat from a fuselage-mounted reactor and two kerosene-fed Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprops outboard.

  9. U.S. to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027 - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling ...