A Metal Dumbo Rocket Reactor

 

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1957

Report LA-2091

Contract W-7405-ENG. 36 with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

 

 

 

This report describes an early design for a nuclear reactor to be used for nuclear thermal rocket propulsion.  The report, originally classified, was later approved for public release.  In 1996, an Adobe Acrobat format version of the report was created by scanning a Los Alamos Library paper copy.  The report is 385 pages, and the file size is 13 MB

 

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