khallow - 30/11/2007 4:44 AMEven if dumping heat directly to propellant isn't that useful, it's still a way to dump heat. One could use that as a way to preheat propellant that is to be ionized (the assumption being that heating will help lower the energy threshhold for ionization).
advancednano - 30/11/2007 5:47 PMI have asked them about weight of the reactor and different heat pipe configuration, and they are considering whether to answer me about it. I believe that they may have more heat piping and just are not showing it in the diagrams.