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Originally Posted by Rising Dragon
Frankly speaking, if the Freedom used nuclear thrusters, in that episode Lacus and Andrew would be dead. Nuclear thrusters produce superheated radioactive plasma for thrust and it is WAY hotter than conventional rockets. When he flew in front of that shuttle, he would've irradiated the hell out of it and melted the cockpit to slag besides. It wouldn't be allowed to be fielded at all in any terrestrial environment because of how much harm it would do.
So the Freedom CAN NOT have nuclear thrusters.
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While that's entirely true, and it can't have nuclear thrusters and fly about the Earth as it does it was non the less stated in Freedom's debut that it could run indefinitely without resupply. And as mentioned it and Justice run for days without refueling.
So it must get its infinite power to its thrusters somehow. It's possible they run on electrical power, like the rest of the MS. Or it has some kind of system to convert nuclear power into fuel for the thrusters.
Considering its mentioned that fossil fuels were long abandoned in CE in favor of better and more sustainable power sources they obviously run on some kind of super high tech fuel and not jet or rocket fuel.