It was an ungainly beast with at least half its. Back in 1958 the ford motor company created a scale model car known as the ford nucleon designed to illustrate how a nuclear powered car may look. Russian papers in the mid 1950s reported the development of a nuclear powered car by professor v p romadin but again shielding proved to be a problem.
The development of nuclear powered submarines and ships and experiments to develop a nuclear powered aircraft at that time kept the idea alive. To run a car you need about 200 kw and. However the idea of using nuclear power to fuel cars is just bloody stupid.
Nuclear power suitably tapped is very safe and a very clear source of power. Researchers and even journalists usually do a review of the literature before embarking on new research or writing a news. Thorium plasma batteries proponents have violated the scientific method at every turn.
The thorium powered cadillac concept car is not even the first nuclear powered concept car by a big three auto manufacturer. Ending the need for regular fuel stops could be enough but the prospect of driving the car of the future might have even. The benefits of nuclear powered road vehicles seemed clear at the time.
See more ideas about cadillac concept cars luxury cars. May 15 2020 explore rodney mosley s board cadillac concept on pinterest. The power source is radioactive so this vehicle would require.
Perhaps the main thing standing in the way of creating a nuclear powered car is this. Your nuclear powered car would be always on although that means it would likely need batteries to store the energy constantly being produced by the miniplant. And forget turning the ignition.
The car also has a very unique wheel design as in this car actually has 24 of them.
Cadillac nuclear powered car. The cadillac world thorium fueled concept car theoretically powered by an onboard nuclear reactor that uses thorium as its fuel. Cadillac as a design exercise to show what a vehicle capable of. Nuclear powered cars were also conceptualized in the 50 s as the power of the atom promised to transform the world. And then there is thorium.
Power generation from a thorium isotope is accomplished by the fission of u 233 which is derived from the relatively stable safer and more abundant thorium. The care uses this element to power the batteries through nuclear fuel. Thorium is an element that is naturally occurring and has the symbol th and as mentioned before it is the ninetieth atomic number.
Thorium is an element that is naturally occurring and has the symbol th and as mentioned before it is the ninetieth atomic number. The care uses this element to power the batteries through nuclear fuel. Power generation from a thorium isotope is accomplished by the fission of u 233 which is derived from the relatively stable safer and more abundant thorium.
And then there is thorium. Nuclear powered cars were also conceptualized in the 50 s as the power of the atom promised to transform the world. Cadillac as a design exercise to show what a vehicle capable of.
The cadillac world thorium fueled concept car theoretically powered by an onboard nuclear reactor that uses thorium as its fuel.
