Forum:Neuclear powered cars

Would'nt those atomic cars we see in fallout three be a major pain in the neck to reapir? First the repairmen would have to wear radiation suits, the car would have to be driven into a radiation room for the repair, and if you needed to replace a piece the old one would need to be buried in a sealed container underground untill the radiation wares off in sixteen thousand years (I think its that long)... plus if you had an accident in one, boom, miniature neuclear bomb on the highway. People woud have to call the bomb squad to tow it if it didn't go off first killing many drivers and setting off a chain reaction whith the others as we have observed in fallout 3. I mean if a couple gunshots can blow one up a car crash definatly will. I know im trying to make sense of fallout 3's science! but It seems a bit obvious...--209.208.106.196 23:33, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

These cars are 200 years old meaning the metal is very thin and the reactors are out of tune. RE:volitile

but its not atomic cars, its fisson cars. --CptStarfish 11:34, September 27, 2009 (UTC)

Fissioncars use atomiv energy --Paladin cross 12:20, September 27, 2009 (UTC)

Just so that people have the reference that inspired the FO3 team to create nuclear fission reactor cars: here's the Wiki entry for the Ford Nucleon. Nightweaver20xx 18:25, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

I think that, despite the risks, they kinda had to use them, cause there was so little fuel left in the world. --Toast 19:32, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ugh. Bethesda's developers aren't the most intelligent or attentive people in the world. Cars in the Fallout world aren't atomic but electric. Charged from portable micro fusion cells. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 13:37, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * The car could be nuclear, and simply run on MF cells much like the Delorean runs on plutonium. Or garbage. --Toast 15:45, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * No, it's not. It's a battery, since in Fallout 2 you charge your car, not refuel it. The Fuel Cell Controller and Fuel Cell Regulator both refer to energy, not fuel or fissible materials. In short, pre-war vehicles weren't atomic, but electrical. All evidence points to it. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 18:22, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * If I recall correctly, the car from Fallout 2 required Microfusion cells, which is a nuclear device. --Toast 22:52, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * Primo, it's cold fusion, not fission. Secundo, you charge' the car with more power. Not refuel it or replace fuel rods. You charge it. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 23:09, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * Alright, fine, whatever. The cars run on electricity. But why can't the Highwayman just be similar to an electric car from our time? Electric cars do work, it's just no one uses them. They might have become popular to save fuel back before the war. If it is an electric car, maybe some companies kept using fuel. Also, cold fusion is the only way the Fallout 3 cars could've worked, anyway. --Toast 14:53, November 12, 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, and please stop derailing each and every Fallout 3 related conversation and bending it to your own hateful desires, because it is extremely unprofessional and immature. We all know you hate Bethesda, so why don't you just put it in your signature, and it'll save you the trouble of saying it so often. --Toast 15:48, November 11, 2009 (UTC)

really, I've read at least three forums where this dude up here keeps dissing Fo3 and Bethesda, and it's really annoying. Most of the people on this wiki probably started out on Fo3, and out of about half of those guys, it's the only fallout game they've played.Rainman222 17:49, January 9, 2010 (UTC)Rainman222

Of course the cars are powered by electricity, which is generated from a fusion source. So you could really say they're either/or. It's that old chicken egg crap. The part that makes this really hard to argue about is that the only viable form of nuclear fusion as a power source today uses the same concept as fission reactors or even coal plants, where the heat generated by the process simply turns a steam turbine, generating electricity. Furthermore, the Ford Nucleon was supposed to use a fission-based power source, using the same turbine concept. Even though the MF Cell is cold fusion, which I might add, doesn't exist or work in the real world, other than goofy "Almost" bullshit, and none of us understand how a useful one would work (Where more power is generated than put into the system), it's still nuclear. Just as today I would say most cars are gasoline powered, I could just as easily say the Highwayman is nuclear. And yeah, they'd probably be really easy and safe to work on, as long as the fusion cell were intact. I was actually joking around with a friend about a fission powered water heater/household power generator. Also, I bet if you disrupted the processes occurring in an MF cell which make it "cold", maybe by shooting it with a .32 cal bullet, I bet it would at least throw some nasty rays around. Metalfrenchtoast 18:56, January 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * You *do* realize the inherent fallacy of comparing 2066 technology with 2010 technology, right? http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 21:46, January 12, 2010 (UTC)

Would it not be equally fallacious to claim that a vehicle powered by fusion cells, cold or otherwise, isn't atomic? You're not connecting the source of the electricity. It's like if I argued that a nuclear power plant was actually steam powered. Metalfrenchtoast 23:34, January 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Only if you ignore the populace. Generally, terms "nuclear" or "atomic" mean "nuclear fission" in the eyes of the public, so it's wise to avoid this problem by stating, outright, that it's nuclear fusion or simply fusion. http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/thumb/4/4a/Naglowaa_se.gif/11px-Naglowaa_se.gif Tagaziel (call!) 08:09, January 13, 2010 (UTC) Just saying it's not exactly fair to claim it's specifically not a nuclear car. Anyways, most people don't even know what nuclear fission is. Metalfrenchtoast 14:55, January 13, 2010 (UTC)                                                                                   Also, "Atomic" can actually be used in either context, fission or fusion. 97.123.41.180 06:49, January 14, 2010 (UTC)