In 1980s, veterans of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program got together and recorded nearly 13 hours of presentations and interviews describing the amazing effort to make a nuclear-powered airplane. The content is mostly focused on the Heat Transfer Reactor Experiments (HTREs) which can still be seen sitting out in the parking lot of the EBR-I museum in Idaho. Dr. Jake Hecla, Stanton Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, digitized this material with the help of John Webb. The people who saved this...
The Story of the Atomic Airplane
Nick Touran
