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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 based on shrinking sizes.[1] 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.[citation needed]
The Nucleon is the inspiration for the cars scattered throughout the landscape of the video games Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.[3]
References
- ^ "Ford's mid-century concept cars forecast future vehicles". Ford Media. http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=3359. Retrieved 8 Jan 2011.
- ^ Bellows, Alan (27 Aug 2006). "The Atomic Automobile". Damn Interesting. http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=656. Retrieved 8 Jan 2011.
- ^ "Fallout 3 vehicles". The Vault, the Fallout Wiki. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_vehicles. Retrieved 7 Mar 2011.
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