Do you think is it possible that a car can be powered by a nuclear reactor ?

Three Oaks

I am thinking if we are going green and looking for renewable energy, why not make a nuclear powered car.



Kaneohe

The reason why you can't put a nuclear reactor bring up a vehicle is because the car hand down have to lug around 10 tons apprised of lead to shield remonstrate with the radiation run off the fission reactor. We are talking about laborious gamma rays increased by fast neutrons that can kill you in ceductive horrific ways (i. e. fry you depart the inside not present) if it's not properly shielded. Obviously a passenger car with a 10-billions engine isn't going to prove false notably practical. If you are talking close by RTGs (radiothermal generators) charge out of the ones used to power spacecraft hard by using the passion scram the a decline in on plutonium (since it's not fission, it doesn't originate back-breaking gammas or neutrons so it doesn't need heavy shielding), those lecturer't generate hugely power-- The biggest ones, like the ones on the Cassini Spacecraft currently probing Saturn, generates babely enough power to light a few 100-watt bulbs.



Olla

Technically, yes, it's possible, although it'd have to be a truck. It'd be easier to develop electric cars, and run them on nuclear movement.



Valley View

key work "nuclear" dose that sound right to you if your helping the earth what is theres a leak?



Reeder

0o0o0o0o0o yeah, wouldn't that be great when 2 nuclear reactors collide?



Attica

It would be a very small reactor but cooling and crash resistance will be the undoing.



Maywood

They used to routinely make nuclear reactors to power small space probes. They had to be pretty small. I wish I knew how the power system was made, but I don't. Particularly, if you want to launch away from the sun, and send a craft to the outer reaches of the solar system, nuclear was required. Solar energy in the outer solar system was just too weak. But yes, it must be feasible. The power-to-weight ratio of the space versions was supposed to be pretty good.