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Dave Gower wrote:
> "Gactimus" wrote in message
> news:ewlId.224$PB.81@okepread01...
> > Yes, the government should allow the private sale of plutonium so
we can
> > have a nuclear reactor in every house and two nuclear powered cars
in
> > every garage.
>
> Actually, I recall as a kid in the 50s reading articles in Popular
Mechanics
> which said that we would all have just this kind of thing in the far,
far
> distant future...1970 at the latest! I even remember sketches of what
they
> might look like. Needless to say, the cars had long noses to
accommodate the
> reactor shielding.
Powering a practicable nuclear car by a combination of nuclear battery
and rechargeable battery/hyper-capacitor is possible now.\
The use of dispersable xenon gas based nuclear batteries would even
make these cars reasonably safe.
There is some very theoreticall work on Hafnium or Americium reactors
pumped by netron beams that would have sufficiently reduced shielding
for use in aircraft. (again recent popular science articles)
A much better approach is ofcrouse to use nuclear energy to generate
power centrally where it can more strictly be managed and to use the
energy to synthesise fuel and chemicals.
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