Cars and Comrades

people know that the Navy has nuclear-powered submarines. But nuclear power plants for cars, airplanes, spacecraft, and other vehicles have all been dreamed up, and in some cases tested, mostly by cold-eyed psychopaths and crazy dreamers during the Cold War. First we get caught up on the state of our project cars.

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“The Miracle of U-235” from Popular Mechanics January 1941:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ftkDAAAAMBAJ&lpg;=PA1&pg;=RA1-PA1#v=onepage&q;&f;=false

Civilian cargo ships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

Weird Chrysler tank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_TV-8

Soviet nuclear train concept:

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/sanders1/docs/nilsen.pdf

University of Utah nuclear train concept:

https://books.google.com/books?id=bVMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg;=PA78&ots;=oNcGmhCvuD&dq;=x-12+locomotive&pg;=PA78&hl;=en#v=onepage&q;=x-12%20locomotive&f;=false

Nuclear powered car concepts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

http://www.carsandracingstuff.com/library/a/astral.php

http://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/simca-fulgur-1958/