NASA looking into Nuclear powered space vessels
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Although they are a pile of shit and should be shut down as an organisation, does this run afoul of the UN treaty concerning radioactive materials in space or does that strictly concern weapons only?
As once it's up there, would be fairly easy to turn it INTO a weapon..
The ban applies to nuclear explosions. As long as they're not bring back Project Orion, it'll be fine.