The Ford Nucleon was a concept car from the 1950s that aimed to use nuclear energy for propulsion. Its innovative design never progressed beyond the model phase due to technological and safety issues.

Nucleon Energy is proposing projects in the Birch Hills County, and recently hosted three education sessions in the county and M.D. of Smoky River to get a response and to ...

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A ...

Excitons, encountered in technologies like solar cells and TVs, are quasiparticles formed by an electron and a positively charged "hole," moving together in a semiconductor. Created when an ...

Could a nuclear-powered car have revolutionized transportation? The Ford Nucleon was one of the most ambitious car concepts ever designed, using atomic energy to eliminate gas stations forever.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Inside the nucleus of the atom, the building blocks of matter are anything but static. Individual particles are in a constant state of energetic motion, like dancers on a ...