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> Bringing from Earth a few tons of nuclear-powered jet engine to use water as propellant would take building such an engine first. We're not even close. That'
by Density 9y ago
> Bringing from Earth a few tons of nuclear-powered jet engine to use water as propellant would take building such an engine first. We're not even close.
That's not true. NASA built and tested designs for a nuclear engine in the 80s, human rated even, and the results were spectacular.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA