• TheCaconym [any]
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    4 years ago

    Russian icebreakers are too, and they're much smaller than aircraft carriers.

    The USSR also used small-scale nuclear reactors in their antarctic bases.

    The real tragedy is the way we never used them for space propulsion - they're orders of magnitude better than chemical propulsion. Also, as usual with space stuff, the USSR's nuclear space engine, the RD-0410, was superior to the American NERVA.