Now, this is where I really wish I could tell you Fiat built some nuclear-powered electric concept car. Alas, the closest we’ll ever get to that was the Simca Fulgur concept from 1958 that would ...

Ultimately, the automotive industry abandoned the idea of nuclear power with, unsurprisingly, the risk of radiation poisoning at the top of the list of cons. It's hard to imagine a car balancing ...

While small-scale thorium-powered nuclear reactors are theoretically possible, none have been designed that could fit in a car. Stevens' system uses a thorium-powered laser to turn water to steam ...

In theory, nuclear-powered cars could run for thousands of miles without refueling, and some could even fly. But several problems remained. For one, nobody had developed a nuclear power plant ...

The idea behind it was, to put it nicely, ambitious: a car powered by a small nuclear reactor with a range of at least 5,000 miles. The idea wasn’t totally out there, believe it or not.

If you've seen "Fallout" or played any of the games, you know that nuclear-powered cars are relatively commonplace. That's not true in the real world, but that's only because such vehicles aren't ...