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Ford's One-Time Nuclear Concept Car

Ford's One-Time Nuclear Concept Car

This one could be considered the ultimate concept car...highly impractical and fraught with danger.

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Daniel Ganninger
Dec 16, 2024
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In the 1950s, Ford Motor Company came up with a concept car that seems beyond comprehension today. It was a car that was supposed to run entirely on nuclear power.

Ford made a model of a concept car in 1958 called Nucleon, which would have been powered by a small nuclear reactor. The reduced-size reactor was going to be completely removable in the rear o…

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