re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Ah, yes…….the Ford Nucleon!

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One of my students thought I was joking until I pulled up the info for her - then she was all like, “What the hell were they thinking? Who’d think it would be a good idea to be driving your very own personal Chernobyl down the highway?!”

Well, for one thing, Chernobyl was still 30 years down the road. Hell, Three Mile Island was 20 years in the future. The men in white coats and/or military uniforms were assuring everybody that nuclear power was harmless if handled properly. It was the bolded that ended up killing the fantasies of home nuclear reactors or atomic planes dead as the dodo.