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that will pass. With Starship you can deliver reactor into orbit in a "safe box" such that if anything happens with the rocket during launch and acceleration th
by trhway 2y ago
that will pass. With Starship you can deliver reactor into orbit in a "safe box" such that if anything happens with the rocket during launch and acceleration the box with the reactor will fall without breaking apart. Such box can be made in self-stabilizing shape similar to Dragon capsule so that it will slow down in atmosphere. One can imagine 10 cm thick tungsten and steel walls, etc. for the "box" to not break on fall/reentry or in the rocket explosion. And you don't need it for the whole reactor, only for the nuclear fuel.
- perihelions 2y agoYou don't need anything at all. A reactor that has never been turned on is not radioactive. The only protection you need is to simply not start the reactor until it's on a planetary escape orbit, one that does not return.