“...pocket reactors the size of cell phones...”
A TRUE electric automobile, without need for a massive battery pack, might then be a practical alternative, with refueling necessary only every few months or even years.
Nuclear reactors produce heat. A clever means of capturing that heat and turning it into electric power, say like a Stirling hot-air engine, driving an electric generator, would provide the power on demand, and when not in use or at reduced demand, the excess heat would be dispersed into the atmosphere.
[[with refueling necessary only every few months or even years.]]
Man o man wouldn’t that be something? Especially if it was like 4 times a year or so mething?
[[the excess heat would be dispersed into the atmosphere]]
Or hook it up to a home heat storage and delivery unit, and heat the home during the winter months.
ah...and that’s the problem the greenies will point out right away...excess heat dispersed into the atmosphere. can’t win with the “save the earf” people. they dimly believe that humans shouldn’t be allowed to use any of the earths resources for any reason. except the ones used to make cellphones, Ben and jerry’s ice cream, Starbucks products, doordash cars....
Oh, yeah, if a submarine can have one, why not a car?