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From: els@pur-phy.UUCP (Eric Strobel)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Illegality of NERVA's??!!
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 14:59:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 14:59:30 1984
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   Who said anything about nuclear explosions???  NERVA was to use a reactor
to have fuel burn, achieving an exhaust temperature much higher than ordinary
rockets, thus giving a larger specific impulse.  I don't remember the details
and I hope that someone might post a brief summary of the NERVA project and
the alleged illegality.

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