Question: More interesting/strange information from the nuclear sector?

Sam Smith answered on 24 Jun 2020:

I’ll suggest 4 things to look at:
1. The Corvair X-6 and Tupolev Tu-119, aircraft designed to use engines powered by on board, air cooled nuclear reactors. – https://interestingengineering.com/both-us-and-soviet-attempts-at-developing-a-nuclear-powered-aircraft-ended-in-failure 2. Project Orion which was an actual plan to use nuclear bombs as a propulsion source for space craft. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion 3. Cherenkov radiation, which makes nuclear reactors glow blue under water, due to the lower relative speed of light in water. -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjx0BSXa0Ks 4. The Oklo Natural reactor, where a few million years ago a natural nuclear reactor formed in Gabon. – https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor

These are some great oddities regarding nuclear!