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"with the same lethal outcome in case of failure"

Not so, it's a lot easier to put extra safety equipment on the ground then on an airplane.

I quite agree that parachuting the reactor is not going to work - if you were flying the thing, and you had a 50% chance of saving the plane if you had a power plant, but a 100% chance of crashing if you let it drop - would you do it?

The military is trained for such choices, civilians are not.



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