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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
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Subject: Re: space news from April 8 AW&ST
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Date: 28 May 91 13:32:29 GMT
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Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
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In article <1991May24.041512.7497@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>.... [Hmm, I wonder if they've thought about the problems
>of nuclear clustering?  One has to beware of interactions between reactors,
>since they are unshielded and right beside each other.]
>
They are in the business of thinking about such problems.

>NASA is interested in Timberwind but is wary of public outcry and suspects
>that commitment to a specific advanced reactor design is premature.  [They
>would prefer to spend half a decade studying it first, as usual.]...... 
>
You don't just slap something like this together and launch it.


Peter Jarvis............