Gigawatt - Gigawatt The gigawatt (symbol: GW) is a unit for measuring power corresponding to one billion (109) watts..
Project Pluto - given to the Coors Porcelain Company, which would become better-known later for their brewery division. The tolerances were so tight that Tory's base plates had an auto-ignition point only 150 degrees above the reactor's peak operating temperature. Engineers calculated that the aerodynamic pressures upon the missile might be five times those the hypersonic X-15 had to endure. The proposed use for nuclear-powered ramjets would be to power an unmanned cruise missile, called SLAM, for Supersonic Low-Altitude Missile. In order to reach ramjet speed, it would be launched from the ground by a cluster of conventional rocket boosters. Once it reached cruising altitude and was far away from populated areas the nuclear reactor would be turned on. Since nuclear power gave it almost unlimited range, the missile could cruise in circles over.
Orders of magnitude (power) - three orders of magnitude, or a factor of one thousand. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 1 microwatt 2 1 milliwatt 3 1 watt 4 1 kilowatt 5 1 megawatt 6 1 gigawatt 7 1 terawatt 8 1 petawatt 9 1 exawatt 10 1 zettawatt 11 1 yottawatt 12 Higher orders of magnitude 13 See also 14.
