In article vxoqc.19775$gr.1626453@attbi_s52, Jay Honeck wrote:
It was a fascinating concept, but they simply couldn't work around the
problem of inevitable accidents.

"Nuclear Plane crashes -- Thousands Perish!" simply was unacceptable then --
and now.

Nonsense. The nuclear airplane project was abandoned because the reactor
and the required shielding made the airplane too heavy to be practical.
The worst that would happen in a nuclear plane crash would be a very
expensive toxic materials clean-up.