Ford Nucleon

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The Ford Nucleon concept car.

The Ford Nucleon was a scale model concept car developed by Ford Motor Company in 1958 as a design on how a nuclear-powered car might look. The design did not include an internal-combustion engine; rather, the vehicle was to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the rear of the vehicle, based on the assumption that this would one day be possible by reducing sizes. The car was to use a steam engine powered by uranium fission similar to how nuclear submarines work.^[2]

The mock-up of the car can be viewed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.^[3]

In popular culture

The Nucleon is the inspiration for the nuclear cars (such as the fictional Chryslus Corvega, which in-game billboards describe as having an "Atomic V8" engine) scattered throughout the landscape of the Fallout series.^[4] The games' depiction is more satirical, however, showing the safety problems this would likely cause by having the cars explode in a mushroom cloud and release radiation when shot at by players or enemy NPCs.^[5]

References

↑ "Fox Three." dassault-aviation.com. Retrieved: 24 April 2010.
↑ Bellows, Alan (27 Aug 2006). "The Atomic Automobile". Damn Interesting. Retrieved 8 Jan 2011.
↑ "The Henry Ford, America's Greatest History Attraction". Retrieved 20 Mar 2012.
↑ gstaff (9 September 2008). "The Real World meets Fallout: Power Armor and Nuclear Cars". Bethesda Softworks. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
↑ "Fallout 3 vehicles". The Vault, the Fallout Wiki. Retrieved 7 Mar 2011.

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