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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 United States Army...
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    as of 2024[update], no nuclear thermal rocket has flown. Whereas all early applications for nuclear thermal rocket propulsion used fission processes,...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (category Nuclear spacecraft propulsion)
    Energy Commission (AEC) known as the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program, aimed at developing nuclear propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles. The...
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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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    A1B reactor (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
    Nuclear power in the United States Ragheb, M. (2015). "NUCLEAR MARINE PROPULSION" (PDF). p. 8. Schank, John F. (2005). "MODERNIZING THE U.S. AIRCRAFT...
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    William Anders (category American nuclear engineers)
    Technology (AFIT) 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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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  • leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein 32 family member A ANP32B ANP32C ANP32D ANP32E Adult Nurse Practitioner Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion ANP, IATA airport...
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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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    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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    for most of the nuclear age are the United States and Russia. Triads include: Bomber aircraft: Aircraft carrying nuclear bombs, or nuclear-armed cruise missiles...
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  • engineer on the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program at Convair aircraft in Fort Worth, where as part of the flight-test crew for the Aircraft Shield Test...
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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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    (Escort Aircraft Carrier), CVS (Antisubmarine Aircraft Carrier) and CVN (Aircraft Carrier (Nuclear Propulsion)). Beginning with the Forrestal class, (CV-59...
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