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GrahamTG β€” Nuclear Interplanetary Vehicle

Published: 2018-10-17 16:44:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 4027; Favourites: 169; Downloads: 89
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Description Concept spacecraft. Model by N Stevens, rendered in Lightwave3d
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Comments: 7

desertforest [2019-03-29 20:23:40 +0000 UTC]

My brain initially registered the NIV-1 as NAVY-1 (May have something to do with that my Dad was in the Navy?) Anyway, nice concept. Then comes the thought of what a plastic model, or a game miniature, might be like.

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agricola64 [2018-10-17 20:51:20 +0000 UTC]

would those tanks not cause a lot of neutron backscatter into the ship?

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Thomas-Peters In reply to agricola64 [2018-10-17 21:31:42 +0000 UTC]

To some degree. That is why the crew pod is seperated from the engine and tanks by the long neck.

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SiliconShaman [2018-10-17 19:56:14 +0000 UTC]

Wouldn't a nuclear powered ship need some huge radiator vanes to dump waste heat?

Still.. beautiful image, very 50's design.Β 

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Thomas-Peters In reply to SiliconShaman [2018-10-17 21:29:52 +0000 UTC]

This design is a nuclear thermal rocket, all of the reactor’s heatis used to heat up the hydrogen fuel, causing thrust. The reactor is damped when the engine isn’t firing.

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SiliconShaman In reply to Thomas-Peters [2018-10-18 00:02:13 +0000 UTC]

Ah, right.. so basically the rocket IS the coolant system.. [hence the bloody big tanks]

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Warringer In reply to SiliconShaman [2018-10-17 20:39:49 +0000 UTC]

In this case its a NERVA thruster, they get rid of the waste heat by throwing it out with the propellant.

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