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Rainbow Droid

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2. Russia actually built and flew a plane that contained a working nuclear reactor in the 60s.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2019, 04:58 AM

Aug 2019

How did they protect the pilots or stop the plane dumping radioactivity into the environment? They didn't. Most of the pilots died in a short time and after they flew it about 40 times they also gave up on the idea. They used a rigged up tu-95 "Bear".

There's an old Discovery docu about it called "Planes That Never Flew - The Atomic Bomber" which is about mainly the American project but it does deal with the above Russian project as well.

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INL pioneered technology that may have been used in Russian explosion. Here's why it was abandoned [View all] TexasTowelie Aug 2019 OP

Looks like Putin outsmarted himself on this one. democratisphere Aug 2019 #1

Russia actually built and flew a plane that contained a working nuclear reactor in the 60s. Rainbow Droid Aug 2019 #2

Here's the American Project, per Wiki: eppur_se_muova Aug 2019 #3