That Time Ford Designed a Nuclear-Powered Car, the Nucleon
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Ford's 1958 concept car, the Nucleon, was designed to be powered by a nuclear reactor, sparking interesting discussions about the possibilities and implications of such technology.
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Even as early as 1956, textbooks said [1]: "The fantastic possibility has been envisaged of including in an automobile enough fissionable material, about the size of a pea, to last the life of the vehicle. In order to realize why this is not within the bounds of reality, it is necessary to understand something about the fission process."
[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003994194&vi...