The true main reason The Ford Nucleon wasn't put to market is because it would immediately bankrupt the Fuel Industry,but they could've easily transitioned into maintaining and taking care of complex nuclear equipment normal people didn't know how to IMO.
imagine if every intersection fender bender became a superfund site
>>28942428>Ford NucleonThere actually wasn't a reactor design that would be light and powerful enough. All the small scale designs are radioisotope thermal generators rather than true neutron moderating reactors and they typically put out power in the low hundreds of watts.
>>28942437Yes, but OP's post sounds like he's the same schizo from the last nuclear car thread. The one who insisted it was a cabal by big oil that kept nuclear powered cars from the people. And any valid concern about auto accidents becoming nuclear incidents is just fear mongering by THEM.
>>28942454This.A reactor needs a shitton of auxiliary technology that weighs tons.Even the mere steam engine/turbine necessary is already heavier than a normal engine.
>>28942428It was certainly a beautiful model. Would be great to build a full size replica, powered by Tasla driveline, to freak out the boomers at my local C&C.
>>28942671Get one of the mock plutonium transport cases that back to the future guys put in their DeLoreans
>>28942428You're aware that was a show-model, with no powertrain, right?
fairly certain this an ai generated thread with ai generated comments. man 4chan is getting weird these days.
>>28942428Yeah thats the only reason, a Nuclear car was such a good idea that they had to nix it protect the normal car industry"......>fucking fordtards
The postwar years were full of shit like this, the army wanted nuclear tanks, the air force wanted nuclear bombers, you named it everyone wanted nuclear everything. Thankfully there was actually some interesting research that came out of it, the nuclear bomber program in particular directly led to research on liquid fueled reactors.
>>28943192Now its AIEverything's gotta be fucking AI I hate jew-normie future fetish trends
>>28943192Still wish they'd done operation plowshares. Terraforming with explosions
>>28942428>just get cancer and go sterile to go to the grocery store broIf I wanted to do that I'd sit in an EV while it charged (retards actually do this)
Here's an early sketch of the idea.
>>28942553Just use the superheated plasma of an open reactor to push the car forward.
>>28943781https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
>get rear ended by someone distracted from texting>Reactor core and components get damaged>radioactive materials start leaking>die from acute radiation exposure
so are we going to talk about how 45% of the car is front overhang or what
>>28943733why are you pushing this garbage thread about a garbage idea from a garbage company that no one asked for?
