Back Propulsion nucléaire pulsée catalysée par antimatière French Antimaterijalno kataliziran nuklearni pulsni pogon Croatian 反物質起爆式核パルス推進 Japanese Катализируемая антивеществом ядерная импульсная двигательная установка Russian
Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion (also antiproton-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion) is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the injection of antimatter into a mass of nuclear fuel to initiate a nuclear chain reaction for propulsion when the fuel does not normally have a critical mass.
Technically, the process is not a '"catalyzed'" reaction because anti-protons (antimatter) used to start the reaction are consumed; if they were present as a catalyst the particles would be unchanged by the process and used to initiate further reactions. Although antimatter particles may be produced by the reaction itself, they are not used to initiate or sustain chain reactions.[1][2]
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