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Where are the only Nuclear powered Jet Engines ever built stored?
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At this point, there are no known nuclear powered jet engines.
Anyone, of course, with better information, is welcome to refine this answer.
Both prototype nuclear powered jet engines ever built are stored in the EBR-1 site parking lot in Idaho and can be seen by anyone when they tour the EBR-1 reactor historical monument and museum.
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This is a new one to me, you can read up something in site: http://www.aviation-history.com/articles/nuke-american.htm. However it does not give what you have asked. I doubt if more than one test bed reactor engine was built. You could try the author of this article Paul Colon, rcolonfrias@yahoo.com, if this address is still valid The URL you give contains the correct answer. Yes, you are right they were only static test bed engines and could not have flown as built. But they were operating Nuclear powered Jet Engines with compressors and turbines (adapted from an off the shelf production GE Jet Engine). They completed testing in 1963 before the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty shut down the program. If the program had continued they were ready to begin design of flyable engines.
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