Re: [cdn-nucl-l] See You In Court

[Randal Leavitt <randal.leavitt@rogers.com>]

AtomicRod@aol.com wrote:

> Don't be so sure. Large planes and trains can, in fact be supplied with 

While driving out East this summer we passed a train that was several 
kilometers long.  This kind of vehicle could be powered by a reactor. 
  Small commuter trains that are only one or two cars long would 
probably get their power from overhead lines, or from metal fueled 
electric motors like cars.

As for airplanes the little reading that I have done suggests that all 
the technical issues with nuclear powered airplanes were overcome. 
Cost and politics seems to have ended the projects.  Even so, given 
the likelihood of crashes I don't think reactors in aircraft will be 
approved in our lifetime.

Now, if we ever get to hovering living platforms, i.e. flying towns, 
then nuclear reactors will be involved.  We will probably see such 
things on the ocean before we see them in the air.

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