2h04m26s06f Airplane Reactor - Gravity,  Convection,  NASA can Crib for Space Reactor - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-08

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ They consciously and deliberately ignored the contribution of convection to heat flow in liquids. They ignored it.

Ian Scott:
They ignored it for a very good reason. They were designing a nuclear reactor powered bomber. It was going in an airplane.

Airplanes do interesting things like go into dives. The force of gravity disappears. Convection then stops. Convection is a gravity driven phenomena. So they couldn't rely on convection.

NASA will be able to crib from the Aircraft Reactor Experiment- and an abundance of modern reactor designs- to begin work on low gravity- or zero gravity- molten salt reactors.