Giving Wings
to the Atom
Aircraft Nuclear
Propulsion
NEPA and GE 1946-1961
Unofficial Archives
DOCUMENTS
About Videos Documents Reunions
ANP Comprehensive Technical Report Series
APEX-901: Summary And References
56 MB, PDF
APEX-411 Irradiation Testing of Organic Liquids
Many documents from the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, ORNL Repository for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion reactor efforts are
here:
Reactor Program ANP Project PDF 139 pages
ANP quarterly progress report at ORNL 1962
ANP quarterly progress report at ORNL 1054
Aircraft
Nuclear Propulsion Project Quarterly Progress Report for Period Ending December
10, 1950
AIRCRAFT NUCLEAR PROPULSION: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY1966
Many more in the archives at University of North
Texas
By David M. Carpenter, General Electric Co GE X211/J87 Nuclear Powered jet Engine
Secret Project WS-125
By General Electric Co.
Chronological history of
NEPA and GE-ANP Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, 1946-1961
APEX-906: HTRE-3
113 MB, PDF
APEX-907: XMA-1
92 MB, PDF
APEX-908 Part B / N J 1 4 0
E Nuclear Turbojet 23 MB, PDF
APEX-908 Part C / N J 1
4 0 E Nuclear Turbojet 25 MB, PDF
APEX-910: Application
Studies 17 MB, PDF
APEX-913: Metallic
Fuel Elements 87 MB, PDF
APEX-918: Reactor and Shield
Physics 85 MB, PDF
APEX-919: Aerothermodynamics
44 MB, PDF
By: G. W. POMEROY and V. P. CALKINS, 8.2 MB, PDF
This report summarizes the results of irradiation tests of
organic materials conducted in the HB-2 facility of the LITR
and in the electron beam of the GE-ANPD 2-Mev Van de Graaff accelerator. Several
organic liquids capable of withstanding
temperatures up to 6500F have been tested, and descriptions of the tests and
typical data are presented.
NX-2 ANP
(Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion), 1951-1961, Convair Nuclear Propulsion Jet
44 MB, PDF
Giving Wings
To The Atom 900 KB, PDF
GE-ANP
Good Fallout from the ANP Program
145 KB, PDF
Radiation Effects Symposium (from Vol 5 of 6, Lubricants and Plastics Papers) 8.8 MB, PDF
In Atlanta, Georgia, 1958
Report to Congress, Review of Manned Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program AEC and DOD 12.8 MB, PDF
By the Comptroller General of the United States, 1963
When Nuclear Power Was Flying High 3.8 MB, PDF
By Bill Lee, April 2012
Dreams of Nuclear Flight 1.6 MB, PDF
By Jesse Stoffel, NEEP 602, University of Wisconsin - Madison, May 10, 2000
The NEPA and ANP Programs
By U. Hans Behling John Mauro, S C& A, Inc. July, 2005
ANP personnel listing, 1952
3.5 MB, PDF
The
Decay of the Atomic Powered Aircraft Program
235 KB, PDF
A Sufficiency by Brian D. Bikowicz
30%
Efficient
–You or Nuclear?
42 KB, PDF
By Lee Hite
Are you more efficient at converting food into useful energy compared to the efficiency of a nuclear power plant converting nuclear fuel into useful energy?
Atomic Energy
Merit Badge, Explorer Post 303
12.1 MB, PDFWhen GE started this program in 1958, they expected about 200 students to sign-up for the Explorer Program from the Greater Cincinnati area. See page 20, over 800 students arrived for the initial sign-up.
See the current GE Engineering Explorer Post 303
ANP POPSEE Recap 1951-1991
6.8 MB, PDF
A brief ANP program review.
Nuclear Propulsion for Aircraft 3.4 MB, PDF
By Gunnar Thornton & Ben Blumberg
General Electric Co., January, 1961
Technical achievements of the direct cycle program.
Atomic Power and its Implications for Aircraft Propulsion
5.8 MB, PDF
By Lawrence R. Hafstad, US AEC, July 22, 1949
Photographs, written history and descriptive data
By Historic American Engineering Record, National Parks Service
Nuclear Powered Aircraft by Convair Div General Dynamics Corp 3.6 MB, PDF
By J. F. Brady, Convair Div.
General Dynamics Corp.
1956
The Triumph of Political Gravity Over Nuclear Flight 10.1 MB, PDF
By: Charles Wilson, Secretary of Defense
If everything had worked out perfectly, it still would have been a bum airplane.
Nuclear Power
Materials 42
MB, PDFBy General Electric Co.
Progress is paced by materials technology.
GE-ANP, Song / Poem
- Cincinnati, Ohio
144 KB, PDF
SEE Those Magnificent Men and their Atomic Machines Blog
A fascinating blog by Mark detailing some our extensive history
using nuclear power in the sky.
NSP Test Equipment
Engineering Capability
17.1 MB, PDF
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion by M. C. Leverett, ANP Project, General
Electric Company, January 1952, 5 MB, PDF
HTRE-3 ANP reactor fuel
cartridge, Photos by Lee Hite
Fuel Cartridge
HTRE-2
Below is a fuel cartridge for the HTRE-2 reactor core.
Each cartridge consisted of many sub inserts of U235stacked together.
Compressor air flowed thru the multi concentric ring arrangement, picking up
heat energy from the reactor
process.
Former ANP employee George Pomeroy provided declassified archives
and historian Lee Hite em@il of Cincinnati, Ohio, provides the website.All documents on this website have been officially released in writing
to the public domain by GE Legal and the Department of Energy.