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- Pressurize gas (typically hydrogen)

- Send gas through nuclear reactor to make it hot

- Send hot gas through nozzle

This is essentially the what you are doing. Like if you sat on a chair and aimed a fire extinguisher you'd go flying (cold gas thruster, typically used in RCS). You'd go faster if you super heated the gas before it exited the nozzle.



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