[Spaceships] Please look over my ship designs

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

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(Yes, there's some radiation, but it's mostly gammas; it doesn't leave you with neutron-enriched air like the fission air-ram.)

The radioactive objection tot eh fission air-ram should be heavy elements lost from the reactor core. I don't think adding a neutron to nitrogen or oxygen usually leaves you with an unstable isotope. Even turning carnon-13 to carbon-14 is rather mild stuff as radiation goes..