Chinese innovations and space lasers are interesting combinations.

Above: "Tiangong is China's operational space station located in low Earth orbit. (Image credit: Alejomiranda via Getty Images)" (Scpace.com, China's space station, Tiangong: A complete guide)

Chinese are close to making nuclear-powered spacecraft. 

Almost every day, we can read about Chinese technical advances. So are, the Chinese more innovative than Western people? Or is there some kind of difference in culture and morale between Western and Chinese societies? The Chinese superiority in hypersonic technology is one of the things that tells something about the Chinese way of making things. 

In China, the mission means. And the only thing that means is mission. That means that things like budgets and safety orders are far different from Western standards. If some project serves the Chinese communist party and PLA (People's Liberation Army) that guarantees unlimited resources for those projects. Chinese authorities must not care about the public opinion. 

If we think of the Chinese nuclear rocket against this background. That means it doesn't follow Western standards. The problem with spaceborne nuclear reactors is that if launching fails, that system will deliver radioactive material in large areas. And a nuclear rocket. That takes people to Mars in half time is one nuclear reactor in space. 

Nuclear reactors can used to create new and powerful laser applications like neutron-beam lasers. 

But the main question is: what else technology can make than just transport people to Mars? The spaceborne nuclear reactors can give energy to satellites that use a very high-power radar. 

Large orbital structures allow to creation of new types of lasers. The megawatt-class laser systems are soon a reality. In 1970 the Soviet researchers introduced a plan for solar power lasers that could deliver energy to the ground. The modular structure allows the system can connect multiple lasers into one entirety. In those systems, the lasers are in a row. And they connect their power. 

But do you know what means neutron poison? In this case, neutrons will start to hover in nuclear reactors. If the system can form hovering neutrons in the laser element. That thing makes it possible to create neutron lasers. The system traps neutrons in the laser element. And then it aims radiation stress on them. The idea is the same as hovering free-electron lasers or proton (hydrogen ion) lasers. 

The system traps hydrogen ions, protons, or electrons in the magnetic tube in those lasers. Then the laser system gives them electromagnetic stress. When stress ends. Those particles deliver their extra energy as radiation. In regular free-electron lasers. The system uses particle accelerators that drive electrons in a curving trajectory. 

When an electron changes its direction, it delivers photons. Same way is possible to create the proton, or hydrogen ion laser. In that system, the accelerators accelerate protons. But it's possible, to replace the particle accelerator using a magnetic chamber, where those particles hover. 

Or they can deliver energy for high-energy lasers. The nuclear-powered laser can use LED lights to deliver energy to laser systems. In some other scenarios, the laser is put in the nuclear reactor itself. 

Or the system uses high-temperature hydrogen to make the laser rays. In some other visions, hovering neutrons in a laser element will used to create coherent neutron radiation. Same way hovering electrons can create a laser beam. The hovering protons and neutrons can used to create electromagnetic radiation. 

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