Ford’s One-Time Nuclear Concept Car

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 of the car so it could be replenished once the…