How to use nuclear reactors for running scooters? IMAGINATION ALLOWED.ANSWERS IF U CAN?

Question

IMagine to any limit.
every answer will recieved warmly

Answer 1

With current technology, you have a utility company use a nuclear reactor to generate electricity.
Then you use the electricity to charge the battery of an electric scooter.

We do not now how to make very tiny nuclear reactors, as you need to have a critical mass to maintain the reaction, and that means 10 kg for plutonium (and hat is for a bomb, a nuclear reactor would require more because its design is less efficient to get power out quick, but that is somewhat needed because blowing up 10 kg of plutonium would really mess up the scooter and flatten everything around in about 1 km radius). But you also need shielding to prevent radiation from escaping. So the smallest nuclear reactor would already weight several tonnes
(that is why we do not have nuclear powered aircraft).

If radioisotopic thermoelectric generator are allowed (like the SNAP unit that power space probes) -- those are not really nuclear reactor, as they are not using chain reaction -- then you could have one or several of those of those to provide about 70 W each, for a mass of about 4 kg of plutonium 238 (plus the weight of the thermocouple that generates the power from the head of the decaying atoms). But you will be followed everywhere you go by a crowd of angry ecologists who would be vehemently protesting your use of radio-active material. So, maybe, you can ask them to give you a push in exchange for NOT using nuclear power.

Answer 2

The answer is not altogether found in a nuclear reactor. Nuclear reactors use the heat energy of an atomic mass to turn turbines, which in turn generate the electrical power. It is possible to do the same thing directly from unstable elements to electricity. The problem arises in changing the high frequencies to lower ones at specific cycles. A person could get a "thousand miles?" to the gram.

Answer 3

Well, you need to know how a nuclear reactor works to be able to consider some sort of transportable nuclear power device.

A nuclear reactor basically contains uranium rods that release radioactive particles. These particles collide and release enrgy (resulting in more collisions and more energy release). This energy is used, generally, to boil water which powers large turbines. Those turbines then generate electricity.

So, to answer your question: We take an electric scooter over to France (where ~80% of their power is nuclear) plug that baby into the wall and charge it up!

That's how we use a nuclear reactor to power a scooter. ;)

Answer 4

Hi. Rather than having a nuclear reactor, you could have a very small quantity of reactive material as a heat source to power a Sterling engine.

Answer 5

first u would have to make the nuclear reactor small enough to not hinder the scooter, and then put a protective radioactive blocker over it, then wire it to an engine, then the rest is all pretty much electric scooter

Answer 6

You could use a nuclear-thermo-electric generator (also called a SNAP generator), similar to those used for the Voyager space probes, to generate electricity for your electric scooter. But, because they are dangerously radioactive, you would have to have it on a trailer behind you, thirty feet away, and I STILL wouldn't ride the danged thing!