New Nuclear Powered Car

Mini nuclear reactors could be generating power in the uk by the end of the decade.

Nuclear radiation and energy. The development of nuclear powered submarines and ships during the 1940s and 50s led car designers to begin conceptualizing atomic vehicles. When we consider how to fuel this fleet of clean cars with clean energy it quickly becomes clear that nuclear generated electricity will do the heavy lifting. Rather the vehicle was to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle based on the assumption that.

And lets not forget electric cars. The cadillac world thorium fueled concept car theoretically powered by an onboard nuclear reactor that uses thorium as its fuel. Recently a new speed record was set for a steam powered car.

It was designed to be free of the necessity of frequent refueling at your neighborhood gas station with a mobile nuclear reactor located in the trunk of the car. The ford nucleon is a concept car developed by ford in 1957 designed as a future nuclear powered car one of a handful of such designs during the 1950s and 60sthe concept was only demonstrated as a scale model. Cadillac as a design exercise to show what a vehicle capable of.

Fueled by a consistent reaction these cars would. To this day the closest weve ever come to a nuclear car is the ford nucleon a 1958 scale model concept car that wouldve used a nuclear reactor paired with a steam engine much like nuclear. The 1957 ford nucleon concept car is a definite throwback from a time when the power of the atom seemed limitless and offered a possible direction for cars of the future.

The design did not include an internal combustion engine. Manufacturer rolls royce has told the bbcs today programme that it plans to install and operate factory built. Fordthe design called for a power capsule located in the rear of the car charging stations replacing.

In the 1950s perhaps the height of the so called atomic age ford developed a concept car called the ford nucleonthis nuclear powered automobile was designed according to ford based on the assumption that future nuclear reactors would be smaller safer lighter and more portable source. One category sadly lacking from the modern imagination is the nuclear powered car. After all just four grams of uranium 238 is equivalent to a full tank of petrol.