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    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 Air Force. Studies...
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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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    to study the possibilities via technology development in the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program which ran from 1946 (originally as USAF NEPA) until...
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    as of 2023[update], no nuclear thermal rocket has flown. Whereas all early applications for nuclear thermal rocket propulsion used fission processes,...
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  • A nuclear navy, or nuclear-powered navy, refers to the portion of a navy consisting of naval ships powered by nuclear marine propulsion. The concept was...
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    A1B reactor (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
    A1B reactor is an aircraft carrier nuclear reactor developed by the United States Navy. It is used in Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers to provide...
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    Pratt & Whitney XT57 (category Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines)
    (PDF). In Culver, D. H. (ed.). Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Application Studies (Technical report). Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program. pp. 40–48. OCLC 1065745839...
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  • States Navy Nuclear Propulsion community consists of Naval Officers and Enlisted members who are specially trained to run and maintain the nuclear reactors...
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    nuclear propulsion was not an option: the British government rejected nuclear propulsion as too costly. Before cancellation the carrier's propulsion system...
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    Alvin M. Weinberg (category American nuclear physicists)
    the laboratory in 1955. Under his direction it worked on the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program, and pioneered many innovative reactor designs, including...
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    William Anders (category American nuclear engineers)
    Base in Ohio of Air University, but the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program was ongoing, and he had to study nuclear engineering instead. He graduated from...
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    "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application"...
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  • initial plan for the aircraft carrier included nuclear propulsion system, but this was later changed to an integrated electric propulsion system due to the...
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    on the principle of jet propulsion include the jet engine used for aircraft propulsion, the pump-jet used for marine propulsion, and the rocket engine...
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    of a nuclear powerplant. In 2019, nuclear propulsion is rare except in some Navy and specialist vessels such as icebreakers. In large aircraft carriers...
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    propulsion from Newtonian mechanics, but are not commonly spoken of in this language. An aircraft propulsion system generally consists of an aircraft...
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    (Escort Aircraft Carrier), CVS (Antisubmarine Aircraft Carrier) and CVN (Aircraft Carrier (Nuclear Propulsion)). Beginning with the Forrestal class, (CV-59...
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    CO2 demonstration CCGT by 2019. Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Stirling engine Nitrogen or Air Versus Helium for Nuclear Closed Cycle Gas Turbines | Atomic...
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    WS-125 (category Nuclear-powered aircraft)
    List of nuclear-powered aircraft Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion – U.S. project 1946–1961 9M730 Burevestnik (Russia) Project Pluto – US nuclear ramjet project...
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    series hybrid electric propulsion, instead of parallel. Some newer nuclear-powered warships also use a form of IEP. A nuclear power plant produces the...
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    strong nuclear triad for most of the nuclear age are the United States and Russia. Triads include: Bomber aircraft: Aircraft carrying nuclear bombs, or...
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    of nuclear powered aircraft and missiles as part of its Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project, which was coordinated by the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Office...
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  • William L. Borden (category Nuclear strategists)
    considerable correspondence with officials regarding the U.S. Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program and the work General Electric was doing towards it. The...
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