Further, the 200-250kW (268-335 horsepower) thorium engine would last for the typical life of a car. Most owners would never need to refuel and, for those in it for the very long haul, an engine ...

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 ...

Nuclear power may go portable with this new form of uranium. Oct. 11, 2010— -- A newly discovered form of uranium could lead to a nuclear power plant small enough to fit in your car and ...

The concept of the thorium-powered car is not brand new. In 2009, Loren Kulesus presented the Cadillac World Thorium Fuel Concept (or the WTF as it became affectionately known). + 7 Photos ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.