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Originally Posted by cosmicfish
No nuclear-powered aircraft has ever been built, much less flown. The US and Russia both built conventionally-powered aircraft that carried fission reactors, to study the feasibility of nuclear bombers, but the reactors were never connected to anything. There were prototype jets created, but they were never flown - the aircraft I was discussing were propeller planes.
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This wiki page has a few interesting projects that did show results :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft