Many companies are working to develop portable nuclear reactors (PoNu) to replace diesel generators.

 Many companies are working to develop portable nuclear reactors (PoNu) to replace diesel generators. 

Work with compact and powerful nuclear reactors continues. The reactor's purpose is to replace diesel generators fit in trucks. That means they can be used in multiple systems, from fixed power plants to ultimate power sources for ships, trains, and aircraft. And even trucks and tanks. The reason why those small-size nuclear reactors are under development is that. 

These kinds of systems decrease carbon emissions. Another reason why those systems are under development is that modern weapon systems like direct energy weapons, which means microwaves and lasers require electric power. Also, coherent high-power radio waves that are used to deliver electricity to drones remotely through air require a trusted and powerful power source. The portable nuclear reactors can changed same way as batteries. 

And if some ship or aircraft uses portable nuclear reactors. Operators can just put it in its place and connect with electronics and electric systems using fast connection. The operators must just connect electric wires to the reactor. And then that system delivers electricity to the vehicle. That kind of system can be on the deck and deliver electricity to the ships and aircraft. The liquid helium can keep those system's temperatures lower. 

Highly radioactive, superheavy isotopes as fuel make it possible to create man-portable nuclear reactors. 

If the system can use an extremely small nuclear reactor as a power source. It can make it possible to create even nuclear-powered helicopters that can fly for years. The crew is the limit in the flight time of that nuclear-powered helicopter. In automatic mode, the helicopter like a nuclear-powered aircraft can fly even for years.  

In the 1950s and 1960s, U.S. Army and Air Force tested nuclear-powered tanks and aircraft. The nuclear-powered Convair NB-36H and Chrysler TV-8 tanks were interesting projects. Also, the Soviets tested nuclear-powered aircraft like the nuclear-powered Tu-95 Bear-class nuclear bomber during the Cold War. And today Russians are working with nuclear-powered "Skyfall" missiles. The plasma-electric jet engines also make it possible to create super, and hypersonic nuclear-powered aircraft. 

A portable nuclear reactor. In the artist's vision. Those modular systems can connect to series. And that means portable reactors that work as the entirety can deliver electricity to a large area. 

NB-36H

TV-8

TU95 LAL (Nuclear-powered Tu-95) 

Ford Nucleon

Hypothetical "Aurora"

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Could the mysterious "Aurora" be a nuclear-powered aircraft? That can use antimatter "afterburner"? 

So could the legendary "Aurora"-system the small-size nuclear reactor that uses the arc-jet engine. The arc-jet engine is an engine system that uses electric arcs to expand propellant. 

That small nuclear reactor can make antimatter "afterburner" possible. The idea is that the small reactor pushes particles against a thin gold layer. And that thing can turn those particles into antimatter. That can give an extremely powerful punch to aircraft. 

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Ford also created the Ford Nucleon the family car with a nuclear reactor. And maybe the new nuclear technology makes those things a reality. If developers want to aim tanks with high-power laser, and microwave mixture weapons they need a power source. And a nuclear reactor will be a good solution. 

The man-portable nuclear reactor can act as a weapon. If the radiation protection is removed from a certain part of the system. That system sends highly radioactive radiation and ionized particles in the desired direction. 

The new TRISO fuel makes that system safe. The highly radioactive elements make those reactors small. 

The new type of nuclear fuel is called TRISO, where nuclear material is closed in graphite and silicon carbide. That thing makes those reactors safer than traditional reactors. The fuel in TRISO balls or capsules can be uranium, but it can also use higher radioactive synthetic elements like plutonium, neptunium, or even einsteinium. 

The super-heavy elements require a system that is near zero-kelvin degrees temperature. And the liquid helium is the answer to that problem. The system adjusts the fission speed by adjusting the temperature. If the reactor uses weapon enrichment in plutonium or some even heavier and more radioactive elements. That means the reactor's size would be so small, that one man can carry it. 

https://energypost.eu/micro-nuclear-reactors-up-to-20mw-portable-safer/

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-electric-jet-engine-actually-works-inside-the-atmosphere

https://radiantnuclear.com/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/westinghouse-unveils-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-2023-05-04/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_TV-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95LAL

DDG-1000 "Zumwalt" the big stealth failure

The "Zumwalt" class destroyers are proven that the ship is harder to make stealth than some aircraft. The size of the ship is far bigger than the aircraft. And that makes it impossible to make the stealth ship, whose length is 190 meters. By using traditional stealth systems. The shape of the ship is also harder to turn stealth than the shape of the aircraft. 

So the things like active stealth systems.  Which bases the artificial intelligence controlled jammer systems makes that interesting project old fashion and that's why only two of those destroyers are in active service. Active stealth means the very high accurate jammer systems that can stop the incoming radio wave. And that system denies the echo from the hull of the ship. 

That kind of intelligent system. Along with nanotechnology and quantum, stealth is a next-generation and more sophisticated system than traditional shape-based systems. The nanotechnical stealth means. That there are microscopical grooves and other kinds of structures at the hull of the craft. 

One of the structures can be nanotechnical antennas. That is covering the ship by ion clouds. Those ions deny the radar echo. 

But quantum stealth can deny the echo of the electromagnetic spectrum's all wavelengths. The idea is that the incoming photons will bomb by using photons that have the same energy level. And that thing makes it possible to make the ship invisible to radar, infrared, and the human eye. 

Quantum stealth requires extremely high computing power. So maybe the portable- or ship-mounted quantum computers can make it possible to make the system that absorbs every single wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. 

The idea is that the counter radiation will deny the echo of the radiation by sending the counter radiation that will remove energy from the incoming radiation. The problem is that every single photon must erase separately. 

Those active systems can install on any ship, vehicle, or aircraft. They make it possible to make the traditional-looking but stealthy ships. One of the versions of the modern electromagnetic weapon systems is the magnetrons or radio antennas installed inside the hull of the ship. 

Those systems can muffle the incoming radio waves. But if their power will increase high enough, those systems can destroy almost all incoming cruise missiles. That thing is like the electromagnetic version of the great sails broadsides. But the cannons are replaced by using electromagnetic transmitters. 

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/zumwalt-the-us-navys-great-stealth-destroyer-failure/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer