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That’s the nice thing about nuclear power plants they can heat up anything even interplanetary dust and expel it out the rear end. The best thing to carry and expel would be something this is dense so that it can be compacted and take less space, but even water can be expelled to propel a nuclear rocket.

The best use for a nuclear engine would be to run an electric power plant to be the power source in an ion drive. An ion drive needs a conductive material to expel.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_drive#Electrostatic_Ion_Thrusters
“Gridded electrostatic ion thrusters commonly utilize xenon gas. This gas has no charge and is ionized by bombarding it with energetic electrons. These electrons can be provided from a hot cathode filament and accelerated in the electrical field of the cathode fall to the anode (Kaufman type ion thruster). Alternatively, the electrons can be accelerated by the oscillating electric field induced by a alternating magnetic field of a coil, which results in a self-sustaining discharge and omits any cathode (radiofrequency ion thruster).”

The New Horizons Space Probe uses ion propulsion but it is mostly solar powered. However, it’s goal is Pluto and there is not much sunlight out that far.

Another form of nuclear engine is to use the decaying nuclear material to create heat and power a thermocouple. This is how the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini space probes were powered. The advantages of this type of engine are no moving parts, the radioactivity is sealed permanently and it is all electric.

Many space drives operate by expelling something out the rear. A chemical engine throws out explosive propellant making them very dangerous just to have around. Nuclear drives

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
“NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application. It was a nuclear thermal rocket. The NERVA rocket engine was based on Kiwi nuclear reactor technology (the original flightless nuclear thermal rocket designs were named after the Kiwi flightless bird). In the early 1960s NASA planned to use NERVA to power a RIFT (Reactor-In-Flight-Test) nuclear stage to be launched in the early 1970s.” The NERVA engine would burn Lithuim Hydroxide (Nuclear/LH2).

The final and most deadly type of nuclear engine is the Orion Engine used in the movie Deep Impact. The Orion had a huge back plate and it would throw nuclear bombs out the rear and then explode them. The resulting explosion would provide a huge push, if a some what rocky trip.

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