Workable Fusion Starship Proposed

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 1, 2009 @03:31AM from the for-sufficiently-difficult-values-of-workable dept.

Adam Korbitz writes "A former colleague of Edward Teller — father of the hydrogen bomb — has published a new paper proposing a design for what could be the first practical fusion-powered spacecraft (PDF). As described at Centauri Dreams, the design has certain similarities to MagOrion, a 1990s-era proposal for a nuclear-powered spaceship with a magnetic sail and propelled by small-yield fission devices. The proposal's author also has links to the British Interplanetary Society's Project Daedalus, a 1970s proposal for an unmanned fusion-powered interstellar probe designed to reach 12% of the speed of light on its way to Barnard's Star."

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Re:In case anyone's wondering by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-01 07:23 · Score: -1, Troll

my brother ( who is a Nuclear Engineer )
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