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  Debbie2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Not a good idea.... :(

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  bigurn2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Debbie, we have had nuclear powered ships and aircraft for almost 60 years. We've had one accident. We are now behind most of the industrialized world in the use of nuclear power. Had we pursued it all along we would have reduced our use of coal-fired electricity, and could possibly have been producing small nuclear power plants safely for a wide variety of uses.

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    lfergie8122 months, 2 weeks ago

    We had one well publicized accident on Three Mile Island but there were a couple of major problems at David-Bessie and Perry plants that didn't make major headlines because there were little outside contamination. Most of these accidents especially at David-Bessie were the result of cutting corners with repairs.

    I agree with you that if research and development had continued at an intense level and these accidents had been kept under check, public opinion would not have forced nuclear plant construction to cease. After all, no one wants to be near the next "Chernobyl" if one should happen.

    As for this nuclear automobile, I don't see it happening in my life time.

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  miklkit2 months, 2 weeks ago

  A nuclear powered car is only going to happen after we develop practical cold fusion.

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  canadianrancher572 months, 2 weeks ago

  I can't see a nuclear powerd car at all. Nuclear reactors regardless of size need constant monitoring to keep them at a stable level, and since they basically provide only heat energy that must be turned into electricity which would require a turbine that would likely be run by steam, again something that has to be watched almost constantly. Nuclear reactors work well on a larger scale because they can be tended to by a group of people. I am in favor of nuclear power but for something like a car it would be very expensive because of safey concerns as well as everything needed to keep it running or to shut it down if it becomes unstable.

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  jimdoze2 months, 2 weeks ago

  We're easily a century away (if ever) from secure containment on a scale for cars. I would not look favorably on public research dollars spent in that direction. However, it has certainly been proved up for ocean-going shipping which happens to consume a very large chunk of the daily worldwide petroleum production. I can imagine that it might also work well for locomotives with some tweaking of today's technology. If reducing carbon footprints is one of our goals, nuclear energy certainly should be considered in this way.

  As a matter of interest, some of Isaac Asimov's early fiction works contemplated the possibility of personal nuclear reactors.

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