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The nuclear-powered cruise missile is not a new idea.

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The idea of the nuclear-powered missiles and rockets is not new and during the Cold War, the United States military created the idea of using the nuclear reactor in the high-speed cruise missile. A benefit for that missile was that it could fly even years with extremely high speed, but the problem was pollution, what denied the testing of that weapon. That missile could fly across the earth by using the nuclear reactor, but the project canceled because the pollution was the problem. That attempt was called as "PROJECT PLUTO".


This nuclear-powered ramjet engine was very simple. The burning fuel was replaced with the nuclear reactor, what would give an extremely powerful punch for that weapon, and the idea was to make supersonic cruise missile, what was full of sub-warheads, and what was capable to destroy multiple targets in the Soviet Union. The pollution of that engine was extremely high, and the radioactive fallout would pollute large areas in the route of this missile. The nuclear ramjet bases the reactor, what would change the output power simultaneously, and that would give the pressure waves in the motor, what would push this weapon forward.


The cooling system bases that the high-speed air would transfer the heat away from the reactor. The production of this weapon is very difficult because it leaves the highly radioactive components behind it, and that's why the test flights would be very difficult. And the radioactive material would be delivered to the large areas. This technology is of course very interesting, and now Russians are working with this kind of project. So there is nothing new under the sun.


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