In message , Pat Flannery
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Christopher P. Winter wrote:


Indeed. But it's puzzling -- I've been researching nuclear accidents for
a couple of months now, and I've seen no mention of contamination from the
NERVA program.


Well, maybe they didn't list this one as a accident, as it did exactly
what it was intended to do- exploded. :-)
Still, this seems to be a really off-the-wall test to conduct; maybe
they wanted to see what launch site contamination would be like in case
of a catastrophic failure of a nuclear rocket motor.

The whole programme was off-the-wall by modern standards. Look at the
Reactor In Flight Test, which was suborbital

I've said this before, but that seems designed to cause a RIFT in
international relations.
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