Nuclear Power for Space Travel.

http://pub97.ezboard.com/bnuclearspace

"...when planners at NASA begin to examine space-travel goals beyond low-Earth orbit, beyond 2005 when the International Space Station is scheduled to be complete, they are faced with making bigger, brawnier, and incredibly more expensive versions of the chemical rockets in use today.

Either that, or consider a demonstrated technology that was abandoned almost 30 years ago: nuclear rocket engines..."

Nuclear rocket engines are the next logical step in reaching out. Promising "airline like access to space" without the antimatter, fusion and warp drives our great grandparents once thought were just around the corner. Nuclear power is safe and well understood. Any type of engine utilising high energy carries risk, but life is not about eliminating all possible risks. It's about balancing them. When we exchange freedom for security we are selling ourselves short. We presently have a very real and practical method of colonising the solar system and it's time to stop listening to the ill informed fearmongers. An exciting new frontier awaits us if we truly want it.

That's enough hype. We desperately need more staff writers and professionals visiting our site. Now that Nasa has finally woken up and gone nuclear the Pro-Nuclear Space Movement has grown overnight. Our organisation has been around a few years but we only recently got off our butts and made a website.

http://www.nuclearspace.net

The newer board is far better than the old Yahoo club. We kind of outgrew that. It's still the largest science club at Yahoo but the Yahell glitches were a pain.
Please take the time to visit our board and look it over. We are deadly serious about trying to spread public awareness of nuclear power applications in space. We think it an issue which should not be buried under fearmongering but decided upon by informed opinion instead. We have an uphill battle I know.
The Ezboard is being highlighted this month as we speak. A lot of visitors are looking in. We have plenty of categories going. I hope some of you can find the time to come over and say 'hi'. We'd much appreciate any support you can give in the form of opinions and answers.

Wayne.

 

There is only one problem with the nuclear travel bit... it is illegal. We still build nuclear ships, which could get us to the mars with as little as 77 grams of uranium, but we have a little deal with russia. I believe that once we get the space station up and running that we could build them out there, with the help of russia. We would be away from the orbit of the Earth and yet at a fessable distance away from it. We could get to and from Mars, manned, with 4 months. Plus nuclear power gives us a way to create artifical gravity and electricity. Once we get rid of the fear and that dumb law we will be able to reach the heavens (a lot cheaper).