Fender Bender?

Nuclear energy is already considered dangerous by society, but the idea of a car that has a mini nuclear reactor inside of it is quite ridiculous. This article has no biased side on it, they only speak of how good or bad this could be. Nuclear energy has almost no pollution other than the nuclear waste, which would only be once every 5-7 years with each vehicle. Then the article talks about how this could be and extremely bad idea, what would happen if the vehicle owner wasn’t properly shielded from the radiation? The person in the vehicle and ever others near it could easily die from the nuclear attack. The other main concern brought up is the common use of radioactive materials in weapons.

Vehicles such as a car are still considered extremely unsafe. And nuclear energy is hard to be sustained in such a small area. Sure it would be crazy awesome if we could remove CO2 emossions in general from all the vehicles that are one the road ways now. The risk of all the bad drivers out there doesn’t over way the risk of how badly our society can be hurt by an accident, let’s say a small little fender bender I feel could be fine after a crash but let’s say there was a T-bone accident, how serious could the wall around the nuclear material rupture? I feel this is a cool idea but with the way roads are now, there no logical reason to make everyone’s care into a handy dandy nuke.

Article found in this blog can be found at: Silverman, Jacob. "Can a Car Run on Nuclear Power?" HowStuffWorks. Howstuffworks, Inc., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2013.

Photographic found in this blog can be found at: http://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/nuclear-1.jpg