Nuclear ground-orbit vehicle

[theshadow99]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

One accident is too many. One accident would kill the entire setup. (See the USA's reaction to having nuclear fission power plants after a few went boom for various reasons as an example.)

Really this was just one within the US that went critical (three mile island), a few others with issues, and Russia's Chernobyl disaster... Oddly I learned the other day that they don't even teach why the US has stagnated on nuclear energy for the last 30 years, when a 2nd year political science major asked me what I was talking about when I said that nuclear energy had stagnated in the US... Though this is a repeated problem, the Hindenburg ended Blimps for around 70 years. Both are things we've rethought in the last decade, slowly realizing they weren't so bad.