{"id":4237,"date":"2023-01-23T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:11:20","slug":"bimodal-nuclear-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bimodal-nuclear-propulsion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bimodal Nuclear Propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bimodal nuclear propulsion\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bimodal nuclear propulsion is a two-part system that includes; Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP \/NEP).<\/li>\n<li>It uses a wave rotor topping cycle.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How will nuclear propulsion work?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nuclear Thermal system includes a nuclear reactor that will <strong>heat liquid hydrogen<\/strong> (LH2) propellant and turn it into <strong>ionised hydrogen<\/strong> gas (plasma) that will then be channelled through a nozzle to generate thrust.<\/li>\n<li>Nuclear Electric Propulsion depends on a nuclear reactor to provide electricity to a Hall-Effect thruster (ion engine), which will generate an electromagnetic field that will ionise and accelerate an inert gas to create thrust.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages:<\/strong> Fuel efficiency, a higher specific impulse, rating and unlimited energy density.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Nuclear Energy?<\/h3>\n<p>Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons. This source of energy can be produced in two ways: fission \u2013 when nuclei of atoms split into several parts \u2013 or fusion \u2013 when nuclei fuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><u>Explained: How nuclear-powered rockets can send missions to Mars in 45 days<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bimodal nuclear propulsion is a two-part system that includes; Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NTP \/NEP).It uses a wave rotor topping cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}