Wiktionary
n. 1 (context astronautics English) A rocket with a nuclear reactor aboard. 2 (context astronautics English) A rocket where a nuclear process, especially an on-board fission reactor, enables thrust to be produced.
WordNet
n. a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant
Usage examples of "nuclear rocket".
The NERVA fanboys and fangirls, of which I confess to being one, wanted to play around with possible nuclear rocket landers.
Just before he was going to jet away, the big overhead doors to each building opened-and two MAZ-543 transporter-erector-launchers carrying an SS-12 Scaleboard nuclear rocket started to roll out.
It wasn't hard to point out that nobody was going to endorse putting a nuclear rocket through the dangers of a Shuttle launch.
On the other end of the tether was the nuclear rocket system and its radiation shield.
But your ballistic nuclear rocket did not explode, thanks to Rhodan and his secret defence arms.
Between the Second and Third World Wars the region had been used for secret testing -- of atomic bombs, missiles, the fabled NERVA nuclear rocket engine, and the U.
We stood there on the rim of the vast depression, staring across the table of nuclear glass that the triple-headed super-nuclear rocket had made.
Your husband is primed, the possibilities implanted, and then he's shot up like a nuclear rocket.