Fuel containment in the gaseous-core nuclear rocket by mhd-driven vortices

Nuclear Propulsion for Space Vehicles

“…Magnetohydrodynamic effects have been applied to the basic vortex con cept (71,72), to eliminate turbulence and thus stabilize them. Gas is seeded to make it conducting and is tangentially accelerated by a combination of an axial magnetic field and a radial current.…”