Credit: Ford Motor Company Ford only ever made a 3/8th scale model of its nuclear-powered concept car, the Nucleon. Probably for the best, eh. Nearly 30 years before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster ...

It showcased a wildly inventive swathe of technological advancements only found in our dreams, like flying cars, jetpacks ... It was the first full-scale nuclear plant in the United States ...

A Ford archivist told us the Nucleon only ever existed as three-eighths-scale models, proving that Ford was more concerned with answering the question of how a nuclear-powered car would look ...

The goal for SMR designers is to "work towards a unit that could be manufactured in a factory, kind of the way cars ... in the N.W.T. are pushing for more research into how small-scale nuclear ...