nuclear rocket

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   a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant

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Questions about nuclear rocket

What does nuclear rocket mean?

nuclear rocket means "a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant".

Is nuclear rocket a common word?

nuclear rocket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.