Brian Dunne

Dunne was the chief experimental scientist on Project Orion. He worked on Project Orion as an experimentalist. Dunne and Howard Kratz set up a facility for firing explosive-driven plasma jets as sample pusher-plate targets, after explosive-driven flights were cancelled. == Accomplishments ==

While working at General Atomics Dunne was part of a team of scientists led by Freeman Dyson that designed the TRIGA class of research nuclear reactors. The TRIGA class reactors is the most widely used non-power nuclear reactor with 66 installed across 24 different countries. == Media appearances ==

• History Undercover: Code Name Project Orion (1999) • To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (BBC, 2003) ==References==