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Will They Fit in a Volvo?
These two enormous nuclear-powered engines were built & tested in the 1950s to power giant (208' wingspans) planes to fly 24/7 reconaissance over the U.S. Between the size, cost, and the risk of radiation and the spread of the liquid-mercury cooling system in the event of a crash, President Kennedy pulled the plug on the program in 1961 before the planes were actually built. This is outside the national monument near Atomic City, Idaho, that includes EBR-1, the first reactor to produce electricity. Now the site is where they process nuclear waste...
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