Nuclear Powered Car Concept

The concept is still considered.

Nuclear weapons war crime india yang sedih. Today unfortunately our love affair with nuclear energy has waned considerably. Rather the vehicle was to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle based on the assumption that. The final version will be used as a vehicle in a unity project i have planned.

Part 3 will b. This is a prototype design for a triso fuel fission powered car. 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.

Although hope is still alive for nuclear powered cars. 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.

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. Analyses of the atomic car concept at the time determined that a 50 ton lead barrier would be necessary to prevent exposure. The design did not include an internal combustion engine.

Although the concept of nuclear powered cars is still thrown about in design meetings its amusing to think that there was a time when these cars were seriously considered the future of transportation. Fordthe design called for a power capsule located in the rear of the car charging stations replacing.