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Can liquid nuclear fuel be injected and ignited like petro from a fuel injector?

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Model Lightcraft under laser power

While sadly the funding for this research has not been forthcoming, there have been proof of principle flights and open air flights, so this does work. (more about this here)

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/103431/27786

Using the same method, could lasers or protons be beamed from a space stations or ground be used to detonate nuclear gas/dust/fuel injected from ports into the thrust chamber. Similar to a piston engine the chamber would fill and then detonated but many times a second?

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