Nuclear+trains


 * Nuclear car:**

**Why not?** The reason why people haven't made nuclear vehicles is that accidents to occur and when that happens both cars will explode!

**Why?** Scientists from the Lo﻿s Alamos National Laboratory have created a long-sought molecule known as uranium nitride. Besides offering cheaper and safer nuclear fuel, the new molecule could extract more energy from fossil fuels, making cars more fuel-efficient, and could also lead to cheaper drugs. (I don´t see why cheeper drugs is positive, but it was on the page)

This is a car designed by ford and it´s called: **Ford Nucleon **it was supposed to be powered by nuclear energy, but was never made. When done properly, nuclear power is relatively **safe**, clean and affordable. So why not use it for cars? Both the former U.S.S.R. and the United States used small reactors to power __[|satellites] __, though the practice became controversial because of satellites' propensity to fall back to Earth and break apart. These are examples of **research reactors **, and they may provide scientists with some ideas of how to adapt nuclear reactors for use in other vehicles.

**Nuclear submarine:** Why? Steam power was resurrected in the 1950s with a nuclear-powered steam turbine driving a generator. By eliminating the need for atmospheric oxygen, the length of time that a modern submarine could remain submerged was limited only by its food stores, as breathing air was recycled and fresh water [|distilled] from seawater. It´s also safe since I have never heard about submarines crashing with each other, because of the sonar and thats why they don´t make nuclear cars because they often crash. This is a normal nuclear submarine.

Why? In 1957, the Air Force and the [|U.S.] Atomic energy commission contracted with the [|Lawrence Radiation Laboratory] to study the feasibility of applying heat from nuclear reactors to [|ramjet] engines. This research became known as Project Pluto. The engines being developed under this program were intended to power an unmanned cruise missile, called SLAM, for [|Supersonic Low Altitude Missile]. The program succeeded in producing two test engines which were operated on the ground. On May 14, 1961, the world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA," mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for just a few seconds. On July 1, 1964, seven years and six months after it was born, "Project Pluto" was cancelled. This is a airplane powered by a nuclear reactor during the cold war.
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