Boeing Patents Design for Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Engine

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Boeing Patents Design for Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Engine
By Karl Grossman
Sci Tech 7/10/2015 at 20:01:19

The Boeing Company last week received approval from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an airplane engine that combines the use of lasers and nuclear power.

"Boeing's newly-patented engine provides thrust in a very different and rather novel manner," heralded Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-just-patented-a-jet-engine-powered-by-lasers-and-nuclear-explosions-2015-7

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The Boeing scheme would have lasers in an airplane engine bombard deuterium or tritium causing a nuclear explosion with its force providing thrust.

Business Insider features a video on its website page with its article on the Boeing patent that features, Deepak Gupta, founder of PatentYogi, a YouTube channel. Gupta declares: "This is another cool invention from Boeing. Boeing has patented nuclear power aircrafts. The engines of these aircrafts include a unique propulsion system."

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1. Flying on Nuclear, The American Effort to Built a Nuclear Powered Bomber

http://www.aviation-history.com/articles/nuke-american.htm

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. ZERO chance of that ever happening due to extreme safety hazards. Better chance I'll be elected President, but thankfully we have Bernie for that.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. So I guess they're planning for post-peak oil.

Jet fuel? Who needs jet fuel? We've got lasers and tiny nuclear explosions!

[PoliticAverse]

4. If this thing actually currently worked they wouldn't be using it to power aircraft first. n/t