However, there's one concept car that truly takes the cake as the craziest concept ever: the Ford Nucleon concept car, whose main draw was that it was envisioned as a car powered by a nuclear reactor.

Car buyers today have their pick of gasoline-powered, electric and hybrid vehicles. But if some 1950s visionaries had their ...

The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA) project would've been nothing short of a crown jewel program for any other research team. But not for New Mexico's Los Alamos Laboratories.

From the look of the car's chassis, the vehicle was based on the GAZ-21 Volga and, according to reports, had a four-cylinder engine powered by Uranium-235, the only naturally occurring fissile ...

By integrating the awesome power of nuclear fission into the internals of an axial flow turbojet engine, the DOD, AEC, and the Air Force envisioned fleets of heavy bombers that could fly for ...

In 1958, Ford showed the world a car like it had never seen before, one powered by a small nuclear reactor. The Ford Nucleon, as it was christened, was envisioned as a car capable of driving more ...

A nuclear-powered car lined with lead and other materials to protect its passengers from radiation would weigh at least 50 tons—more than 25 times as heavy as the average vehicle.