This was never an actual reactor design. Ford imagined a future where nuclear power could, maybe somehow, be miniaturized. It was a vision.
Even as early as 1956, textbooks said [1]: "The fantastic possibility has been envisaged of including in an automobile enough fissionable material, about the size of a pea, to last the life of the vehicle. In order to realize why this is not within the bounds of reality, it is necessary to understand something about the fission process."
acidburnNSA•8m ago
Even as early as 1956, textbooks said [1]: "The fantastic possibility has been envisaged of including in an automobile enough fissionable material, about the size of a pea, to last the life of the vehicle. In order to realize why this is not within the bounds of reality, it is necessary to understand something about the fission process."
[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015003994194&vi...