[wongarsu]

French EVs are over 70% nuclear powered. We just keep the nuclear generators stationary and use battery buffers in the car to save weight.

You might argue it's about risk, but that didn't seem like such a huge deal when we tried to make nuclear cars and planes back in the 50s. RTGs are just incredibly inefficient, and properly shielded fission reactors are incredibly heavy.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Yeah, the 1950s involved serious consideration of some truly horrific nuclear flight concepts, so I wouldn't be so dismissive of risk as a factor. Not like airliner crashes are awesome, but they don't drop a reactor core on whatever they crash into. Not to mention proliferation concerns, operator staffing requirements, security staffing requirements. There's very straightforward reasons nuclear powered flight on earth never went past the earliest exploration of a couple prototypes. Russia is working on a nuclear powered cruise missile and has already had one serious mishap with it.