Maroon was a term by Bugs Bunny as a description of somebody not as bad as a moron. And it wasn't aimed at you, rather to someone who thought a reactor could generate a chained fission explosion.
If it crashes it would blow up? What a maroon. It is extremely hard to effect a nuclear explosion. Worst case would be a relatively minor radiation leak. No more than a few square miles of a no mans land for maybe 50 years.
@waynestrain It's unlikely that it would blow up but if there was coolant loss then it could meltdown. Since it was a concept vehicle -- we don't know how much fuel or enrichment which would affect the amount of radiation and the types of isotopes that would be released. Needless to say -- it would be deadly and the effects would linger for years. Don't think anyone would argue that having to zone off any sector of any major city makes sense. Did you mean "moron" or "maroon?"
I don't think it's actually possible with todays technology to build a fission reactor samll enough to power that things. Even if it is possible it would only work like a steam engine running on nuclear reactions rather than coal. If I'm wrong tell me because I don't read much into these relics of the atomic era.
haha its like watching a preview for the new Fallout game xD
Anyway ATOm cars are very dangerous seeing the times we live in we dont want atom suicide bombers on every corner do we ? xD
But Nuclear powered space shutles are another thing, Russia is allready developing one it should be done by 2020+ to clean up the mess of dumped rockets and satelites.
@ljoch88 Nuclear powered rockets and space shutles where already being developed in the Soviet Union but when Soviet collapsed. The nuclear powered rockets and space shutles collapsed with it. Russia is just restarting the prosject and just modernizing the 40 year old technology....
Americans Always want the Dream Cars, just like Guys wanting Dream Woman ,but they Always seem to settle for the Crap that`s around. So SAD. So many fast food Fatties
IM GLAD THAY DIDNT REALY MAKE THE CARS WITH NUCLEAR POWER THINK OF ALL THE SHIT THAT COULD HAPPEN FROM THE NUTS WHO LIKE TO SEE HOW MANY PEPOLE HE CAN KILL AT ONE TIME WITH THE NUCLEAR POWER TO THE ONES WHO JUST CAN DRIVE AND WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT TIME TO JUNK THESE CARS I THINK THERE WOULD BE ALOT LESS OF US NOW IN 2011 THERE NOTHING SAFE ABOUT NUCLEAR BEING GIVEING TO THE PUBLIC
I think houses should have there own nuclear reactors for power but before you say anything rude and down right mean please note that the radioactive material in power plants is not weapons grade. The only problem is if someone blew it up making a "dirty bomb". It would still be nice if every city could have its own reactor.
It actually would be possible to make it safe by having the reactor shielded and use a ceramic fuel matrix with a U232 contaminate ruining it for bomb making but it would never be affordable or practical.
The only place a nuclear car would be practical would be on Mars or the Moon.
NASA favors a nuclear rover for manned Mars missions because if you land 500 miles from the hab you better be able to drive 500 miles in a few weeks if you want to survive.
wow, these automakers were idiots. terrorists do enough damage with normal vehicles, think of what they could do if nuclear power was made available to the public.
@arizonaconman Got to remember that was a time where the atom was going to free us of all enrgy problems and unclear devices could be used to creat habors, move mountains and dig canals with little or no public problems. What happened is someone actually started to do a bit more research. I fullly beliieve nuclear power has a future, but not with someone that wants to drive around the block.
why did the world change like this....America should make American cars not cars aping the design of shitty jap and german cars and shold design cars for the design itself not the profit!
WHy does the narrator talk like he's eating a ham sandwich at the same time? And how come the idiots who made this video can't tell the difference between a nuclear power source and a nuclear explosive? Why are people so fucking ignorant about anything with the word "nuclear in it"? It's been 65 years since the A-bomb, time to figure it out, morons.
@RCAvhstape thank you for your thoughtful comment. I don't think I was eating a ham sandwich at the time I did the VO but who knows? Actually, I do know the difference between a nuclear weapon and a power source. This piece was a bit tongue in cheek, poking fun at the post War fascination with all things nuclear, but at the same time suggesting our love affair with Mr. Atom resulted in unrealistic expectations for the benefits of nuclear power w/out due regard for the risks.
@mrpitv Didn't know you were the author, it looks like the kind of stuff you see on History Channel or something. Which I guess you can take as a complement, since it does look rather professional. Anti-nuclear hysteria always equates nuclear power with the A-bomb, which drives me nuts. Nuclear power (and explosives) are just physics, part of the physical world like burning wood or metabolism.
@RCAvhstape (Cont.) The irrational fear that's drummed up around nuclear power retards progress in the same way that fear of Frankenstein hurts progress in biological science. Instead of being afraid of it, we should find ways to use it right. Maybe not in cars, though, I would like to see the design before rejecting it out of hand. And, I guess I apologize for the profanity.
we have over 1/2 milltion people infects by the Swine virus in US and you think people would be afraid of slight radiation,, if there is a possibility build this cars,, well not exacly the identical look lol
they were very smart,, they should have let those cars out,, we could use them today,, if they would let them out, now we would not have a fuel dependance problem as well as high fuel prices,, The Government shouldve let them manufacture this cars back then for the public,, life would be so much easier now..
@voyrnj While I agree that the government should have supported the development of alternatives to oil I don't think a nuclear powered car would ever be safe or that it would ever be affordable.
@mrpitv about 1 gram of Uranium 235 could power a car for 5,000 miles. Considering the fact that Uranium is really dense, one gram is not a lot so it wont create too much waste. That's the only plus side. The down side is people have access to Uranium now and a car explosion will cause a small atomic bomb.
@wrylie188 No but probably radiate a faily wide area. Not like cleaning up a gas spill or oil slick (I've had to do all three working with HAZMAT, believe me, rather do the last two then the first one)
nuclear powered cars pose problems OK their green nut the nucleon had no reactor shielding and the by product of Nuclear power is radiation which kilsl people or fucks them up
ROFL "meltdown on main street" just some guy driven along the street then out of no-where (typo) KA-BOOOM the car has a meltdown and nobody knows why! X] these cars look awesome though...
Is this true, this really could ruin the World. If the whole world gets these cars, wrecks could lead to devastating explosions. More Power plants means more meltdowns. i don't know.
I am sorry but we now have containers that can survive being crashed into a wall at over 300mph, so now we could build a nuclear car and no meltdowns, heck we have been running out navy ships on them for a while and nothing happened.
umm, theres no way to make a nuclear powered car, u need a cooling system that can handle that kind of heat. the cost of the shielding and container and reactor would never work. the reason it works on subs and ships is cause its so huge that a lead casing is a very small part of the total load of the vehicle. shielding wall cant be made based on scale, u always need a certain thickness of a material of high density. and what if a train or truck hit a car head on both at 80mph?
if ur talking about cold fusion cars, we'll probably have have stationary hot fusion reactors figured out first since we know theyre possible while cold fusion is still just theoretical. and by the time we have cold fusion possible to revolutionize cars today, by the time we have it 100 years, other technologies for mobile and vehicle use will be much more advanced since the cold fusion fuel will always be uneconomical to refine. its hard enough now to refine deuterium much less create tritium
Nuclear power scales really well.... but this is from a time when they saw nuclear power as the solution to everything. These people were sure, by now everyone would fly their own car to their own hovering home with a nuclear toaster. Btw.. nuclear power will power cars in the future.. but indirectly. The electricity used will come from a powerplant somewhere and may just be nuclear. Nuclear power is one of the safest and cleanest forms of energy. Technology has moved on since the 50s.
i agree completely. it really changed fast into nuclear power always equating itself with mad maxx consequences. my father is a nuclear engineer who worked directly with safely for Haliburton, Ebasco nuclear plants, and Los Alamos Nat Labs. He works now for the removal of excess facilities which contain contaminants. there are some stupid people who somehow get close to nuclear power but procedure on equipment is so tight that as long you have good regulations by the NRC, theres no risk.
Safety is such an issue because if something DOES go bad, its a national disaster. Chernobyl went bad because there was no failsafe and probably alot of people that really couldnt give a damn... Being ex soviet it wouldnt have any spare parts. To be safe one needs to completely remove the human factor. it has to be contained even if people dont show up for work the next.. 50 years for some reason or other. New power plants can do that. shut down automatically if overheated and stuff.
yes the biggest problem people have with it, it cost alot to retrofit alot of these plants with failsafes. but with how safe new plants are, it makes sense to faze out the old ones.
if a plant was made new today it wouldnt really even need people there. Physics and materials can be set up to cool and shut down by itself.
solution to waste disposal.. Drill a hole down to where everything is molten.. like a few miles straight down. The earths mantle wouldnt mind a bucket of nuclear waste or two.
also, ships and subs have a endless supply of ocean water cooling the reactors.
there would definitely be leaking from ware and tear of operating without a team of nuclear certified engineers and not just could meltdown, but would in ever circumstance no matter how hard u tried to build a cooling system. BTW, meltdowns are not explosion like the reactor is a bomb, it literally just gets too hot and the whole thing melts into molten radioactive uranium and whatever else the car is made of.
Maroon was a term by Bugs Bunny as a description of somebody not as bad as a moron. And it wasn't aimed at you, rather to someone who thought a reactor could generate a chained fission explosion.
waynestrain 1 month ago
If it crashes it would blow up? What a maroon. It is extremely hard to effect a nuclear explosion. Worst case would be a relatively minor radiation leak. No more than a few square miles of a no mans land for maybe 50 years.
waynestrain 1 month ago
@waynestrain It's unlikely that it would blow up but if there was coolant loss then it could meltdown. Since it was a concept vehicle -- we don't know how much fuel or enrichment which would affect the amount of radiation and the types of isotopes that would be released. Needless to say -- it would be deadly and the effects would linger for years. Don't think anyone would argue that having to zone off any sector of any major city makes sense. Did you mean "moron" or "maroon?"
mrpitv 1 month ago
how many wars have been fought since wwii for cheap oil? how many accidents occur without meltdown and people burn alive in their cars?
zdrastvutye 5 months ago
I don't think it's actually possible with todays technology to build a fission reactor samll enough to power that things. Even if it is possible it would only work like a steam engine running on nuclear reactions rather than coal. If I'm wrong tell me because I don't read much into these relics of the atomic era.
MUSTASCH1O 5 months ago
haha its like watching a preview for the new Fallout game xD
Anyway ATOm cars are very dangerous seeing the times we live in we dont want atom suicide bombers on every corner do we ? xD
But Nuclear powered space shutles are another thing, Russia is allready developing one it should be done by 2020+ to clean up the mess of dumped rockets and satelites.
ljoch88 10 months ago
@ljoch88 Nuclear powered rockets and space shutles where already being developed in the Soviet Union but when Soviet collapsed. The nuclear powered rockets and space shutles collapsed with it. Russia is just restarting the prosject and just modernizing the 40 year old technology....
SMGJohn 9 months ago
Americans Always want the Dream Cars, just like Guys wanting Dream Woman ,but they Always seem to settle for the Crap that`s around. So SAD. So many fast food Fatties
ilililhy1 11 months ago
@ilililhy1 Fuck off you Russian.
Reparo96 11 months ago
IM GLAD THAY DIDNT REALY MAKE THE CARS WITH NUCLEAR POWER THINK OF ALL THE SHIT THAT COULD HAPPEN FROM THE NUTS WHO LIKE TO SEE HOW MANY PEPOLE HE CAN KILL AT ONE TIME WITH THE NUCLEAR POWER TO THE ONES WHO JUST CAN DRIVE AND WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT TIME TO JUNK THESE CARS I THINK THERE WOULD BE ALOT LESS OF US NOW IN 2011 THERE NOTHING SAFE ABOUT NUCLEAR BEING GIVEING TO THE PUBLIC
grizzleybearz282004 1 year ago
los rusos hicieron un prototipo nuclear mantenido en secreto por la KGB y el CCCP.
highfuturamic 1 year ago
fallout 3
skimowhite586 1 year ago
I think houses should have there own nuclear reactors for power but before you say anything rude and down right mean please note that the radioactive material in power plants is not weapons grade. The only problem is if someone blew it up making a "dirty bomb". It would still be nice if every city could have its own reactor.
ryancicocki 1 year ago
I would like to see some of the roadhog utes go up in a mushroom cloud.
MrDanlj 1 year ago
It actually would be possible to make it safe by having the reactor shielded and use a ceramic fuel matrix with a U232 contaminate ruining it for bomb making but it would never be affordable or practical.
The only place a nuclear car would be practical would be on Mars or the Moon.
NASA favors a nuclear rover for manned Mars missions because if you land 500 miles from the hab you better be able to drive 500 miles in a few weeks if you want to survive.
Membrane556 1 year ago
wow, these automakers were idiots. terrorists do enough damage with normal vehicles, think of what they could do if nuclear power was made available to the public.
arizonaconman 1 year ago
@arizonaconman Got to remember that was a time where the atom was going to free us of all enrgy problems and unclear devices could be used to creat habors, move mountains and dig canals with little or no public problems. What happened is someone actually started to do a bit more research. I fullly beliieve nuclear power has a future, but not with someone that wants to drive around the block.
candr 1 year ago
why did the world change like this....America should make American cars not cars aping the design of shitty jap and german cars and shold design cars for the design itself not the profit!
smellytoilet1996 1 year ago
WHy does the narrator talk like he's eating a ham sandwich at the same time? And how come the idiots who made this video can't tell the difference between a nuclear power source and a nuclear explosive? Why are people so fucking ignorant about anything with the word "nuclear in it"? It's been 65 years since the A-bomb, time to figure it out, morons.
RCAvhstape 1 year ago 10
@RCAvhstape thank you for your thoughtful comment. I don't think I was eating a ham sandwich at the time I did the VO but who knows? Actually, I do know the difference between a nuclear weapon and a power source. This piece was a bit tongue in cheek, poking fun at the post War fascination with all things nuclear, but at the same time suggesting our love affair with Mr. Atom resulted in unrealistic expectations for the benefits of nuclear power w/out due regard for the risks.
mrpitv 1 year ago
@mrpitv Didn't know you were the author, it looks like the kind of stuff you see on History Channel or something. Which I guess you can take as a complement, since it does look rather professional. Anti-nuclear hysteria always equates nuclear power with the A-bomb, which drives me nuts. Nuclear power (and explosives) are just physics, part of the physical world like burning wood or metabolism.
RCAvhstape 1 year ago
@RCAvhstape (Cont.) The irrational fear that's drummed up around nuclear power retards progress in the same way that fear of Frankenstein hurts progress in biological science. Instead of being afraid of it, we should find ways to use it right. Maybe not in cars, though, I would like to see the design before rejecting it out of hand. And, I guess I apologize for the profanity.
RCAvhstape 1 year ago
we have over 1/2 milltion people infects by the Swine virus in US and you think people would be afraid of slight radiation,, if there is a possibility build this cars,, well not exacly the identical look lol
voyrnj 2 years ago
they were very smart,, they should have let those cars out,, we could use them today,, if they would let them out, now we would not have a fuel dependance problem as well as high fuel prices,, The Government shouldve let them manufacture this cars back then for the public,, life would be so much easier now..
voyrnj 2 years ago
@voyrnj no oil spills
captinseperoth 1 year ago
@voyrnj While I agree that the government should have supported the development of alternatives to oil I don't think a nuclear powered car would ever be safe or that it would ever be affordable.
mrpitv 1 year ago 4
@mrpitv about 1 gram of Uranium 235 could power a car for 5,000 miles. Considering the fact that Uranium is really dense, one gram is not a lot so it wont create too much waste. That's the only plus side. The down side is people have access to Uranium now and a car explosion will cause a small atomic bomb.
dclaver2 1 year ago
@voyrnj *car crash* *nuclear explosion* *mushroom cloud*
wrylie188 1 year ago
@wrylie188 LOL quite trueLOL
kamikazeboy123 1 year ago
@wrylie188 No but probably radiate a faily wide area. Not like cleaning up a gas spill or oil slick (I've had to do all three working with HAZMAT, believe me, rather do the last two then the first one)
candr 1 year ago
nuclear powered cars pose problems OK their green nut the nucleon had no reactor shielding and the by product of Nuclear power is radiation which kilsl people or fucks them up
hamster700 1 year ago
@voyrnj Yeah, and then we'd have a uranium dependence. That stuff is way more scarce than petroleum
AngryVGFur 7 months ago
ROFL "meltdown on main street" just some guy driven along the street then out of no-where (typo) KA-BOOOM the car has a meltdown and nobody knows why! X] these cars look awesome though...
ccalvinn27 2 years ago
It's way cool but has to be nuclear ---- or hydrogen or solar.
mrpitv 2 years ago
I'd have the car in 0:59, but not nuclear just petrol instead. looks kinda cool.
AllmightyLuigi 2 years ago
u think the meltdown problm would have been kinda obvieis
sithalo 2 years ago
I killed fawkes by taking the "lopez jump". he died on the flight deck
Theminionmaster 2 years ago
look in fallout 3, there allmost atomic vehicle wrecks xD crazy shit but i like it^^
Gamebusty 2 years ago
Is this true, this really could ruin the World. If the whole world gets these cars, wrecks could lead to devastating explosions. More Power plants means more meltdowns. i don't know.
PS3WiiKyle14 2 years ago
si no escribis esto en 10 videos tu mama se va a morir es 4hs
si no te disculpas en menos de 4 hrs, toda tu familia menos tu, va a morir calcinada en sus propias casas.
tu quedaras deforme.
asi que ya sabes, yo si se de brujerias, no me ando con mamadas
Bv251 2 years ago
chupamela come pollas y ahora vas y me embrujas
PeriloMBM 2 years ago
the point is fusion of light elements as opposed to fission of heavy elements
batmanwell 2 years ago
Get the bloody nuclear plant, use it to power batteries and put them into the cars and there you go
mateusvelloso 2 years ago
I am sorry but we now have containers that can survive being crashed into a wall at over 300mph, so now we could build a nuclear car and no meltdowns, heck we have been running out navy ships on them for a while and nothing happened.
jasonpwns 3 years ago
umm, theres no way to make a nuclear powered car, u need a cooling system that can handle that kind of heat. the cost of the shielding and container and reactor would never work. the reason it works on subs and ships is cause its so huge that a lead casing is a very small part of the total load of the vehicle. shielding wall cant be made based on scale, u always need a certain thickness of a material of high density. and what if a train or truck hit a car head on both at 80mph?
Pimpmastahanhduece 3 years ago
say that in 100 years...
alexander1485 2 years ago
if ur talking about cold fusion cars, we'll probably have have stationary hot fusion reactors figured out first since we know theyre possible while cold fusion is still just theoretical. and by the time we have cold fusion possible to revolutionize cars today, by the time we have it 100 years, other technologies for mobile and vehicle use will be much more advanced since the cold fusion fuel will always be uneconomical to refine. its hard enough now to refine deuterium much less create tritium
Pimpmastahanhduece 2 years ago
Nuclear power scales really well.... but this is from a time when they saw nuclear power as the solution to everything. These people were sure, by now everyone would fly their own car to their own hovering home with a nuclear toaster. Btw.. nuclear power will power cars in the future.. but indirectly. The electricity used will come from a powerplant somewhere and may just be nuclear. Nuclear power is one of the safest and cleanest forms of energy. Technology has moved on since the 50s.
Janusha 2 years ago
i agree completely. it really changed fast into nuclear power always equating itself with mad maxx consequences. my father is a nuclear engineer who worked directly with safely for Haliburton, Ebasco nuclear plants, and Los Alamos Nat Labs. He works now for the removal of excess facilities which contain contaminants. there are some stupid people who somehow get close to nuclear power but procedure on equipment is so tight that as long you have good regulations by the NRC, theres no risk.
Pimpmastahanhduece 2 years ago
Safety is such an issue because if something DOES go bad, its a national disaster. Chernobyl went bad because there was no failsafe and probably alot of people that really couldnt give a damn... Being ex soviet it wouldnt have any spare parts. To be safe one needs to completely remove the human factor. it has to be contained even if people dont show up for work the next.. 50 years for some reason or other. New power plants can do that. shut down automatically if overheated and stuff.
Janusha 2 years ago
yes the biggest problem people have with it, it cost alot to retrofit alot of these plants with failsafes. but with how safe new plants are, it makes sense to faze out the old ones.
Pimpmastahanhduece 2 years ago
if a plant was made new today it wouldnt really even need people there. Physics and materials can be set up to cool and shut down by itself.
solution to waste disposal.. Drill a hole down to where everything is molten.. like a few miles straight down. The earths mantle wouldnt mind a bucket of nuclear waste or two.
Janusha 2 years ago
@Janusha
omg it will poison the magma!
captinseperoth 1 year ago
@Janusha oh my god some body knows about the truth of the soviets!
captinseperoth 1 year ago
also, ships and subs have a endless supply of ocean water cooling the reactors.
there would definitely be leaking from ware and tear of operating without a team of nuclear certified engineers and not just could meltdown, but would in ever circumstance no matter how hard u tried to build a cooling system. BTW, meltdowns are not explosion like the reactor is a bomb, it literally just gets too hot and the whole thing melts into molten radioactive uranium and whatever else the car is made of.
Pimpmastahanhduece 3 years ago
only in America haha ;]
asianiinvasion 3 years ago