Last week a SpaceX rocket exploded in a fireball at the SpaceX site in Texas. “Fortunately,” reported Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News, “no one was aboard.” But what if nuclear materials had been aboard? The nuclear space issue is one I got into 35 years ago when I learned—from reading a U.S. Department of […]
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No need to meet IAEA requirements for N-propulsion
February 25th, 2018 Awake Goy
“Considering the maritime potentials of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the international arena and the fact that Iran is one of countries with high water traffic in the world, it is necessary to use the nuclear propulsion technology,” said Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the Chairman of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, on Sunday. […]