NASA confident it can safely launch nuclear reactors 'cold'
NASA is confident it can assuage environmental concerns over nuclear-powered spacecraft by launching them with their reactors "cold" and activating those reactors once in space, according to NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. Such an arrangement "overcomes 90 percent of the concerns [about] the notion...
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