{"id":30580,"date":"2016-09-28T03:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/robert-zubrins-nuclear-salt-water-rocket-design"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:55:25","slug":"robert-zubrins-nuclear-salt-water-rocket-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/robert-zubrins-nuclear-salt-water-rocket-design","title":{"rendered":"Robert Zubrin\u2019s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robert-zubrins-nuclear-salt-water-rocket-design.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Zubrin is best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Zubrin also had a design for interplanetary propulsion called the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket.<\/p>\n<p>A nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket. A conservative design for the rocket would be fueled by salts of 20 percent enriched uranium or plutonium. The solution would be contained in a bundle of pipes coated in boron carbide (for its properties of neutron absorption). Through a combination of the coating and space between the pipes, the contents would not reach critical mass until the solution is pumped into a reaction chamber, thus reaching a critical mass, and being expelled through a nozzle to generate thrust.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/09\/robert-zubrins-nuclear-salt-water.html\">http:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/09\/robert-zubrins-nuclear-salt-water.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Zubrin is best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars. Zubrin also had a design for interplanetary propulsion called the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket. A nuclear salt-water rocket (NSWR) is a theoretical type of nuclear thermal rocket. A conservative design for the rocket would be fueled by salts of 20 percent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56138,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30580\/revisions\/56138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}