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11Inertial confinement fusion — (ICF) is a process where nuclear fusion reactions are initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium.To compress and heat the fuel, energy is… …
12Nuclear marine propulsion — is propulsion of a ship by a nuclear reactor. Naval nuclear propulsion is propulsion that specifically refers to naval warships (see Nuclear navy). Only a very few experimental civil nuclear ships have been built; the elimination of fossil fuel… …
13Pure fusion weapon — A pure fusion weapon is a hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission primary explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen (see Teller Ulam design for more information about fission… …
14PACER (fusion) — This article is about a 1970s nuclear power experiment. For other meanings, see Pacer (disambiguation). The PACER project, carried out at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid 1970s, explored the possibility of a fusion power system that… …
15Aneutronic fusion — is any form of fusion power where no more than 1% of the total energy released is carried by neutrons.Fact|date=March 2008 Since the most studied fusion reactions release up to 80% of their energy in neutrons, successful aneutronic fusion would… …
16Interstellar travel — Montage of fusion powered rocket concepts from 1987–2004, which could form the basis for an interstellar vehicle. Included are: VISTA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories,1987), Discovery II (NASA/GRC, 2002), Human Outer Planet Exploration… …
17Projet Orion — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Orion. Vue d artiste d un vaisseau Orion selon les principes de conception de la NASA. Le Projet Orion fut la première étude de conception d un …
18Nuclear thermal rocket — Sketch of nuclear thermal rocket …
19Interstellar probe — An interstellar probe is a space probe which has left or is expected to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space (typically defined as the region beyond the heliopause). Alternatively, the term interstellar probe is used to refer to a… …
20Gas core reactor rocket — Gas core reactor rockets are a conceptual type of rocket that is propelled by the exhausted coolant of a gaseous fission reactor. The nuclear fission reactor core may be either a gas or plasma. They may be capable of creating specific impulses of …
