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5000 mile range sounds great- and that estimate was made for a 1950's era vehicle, so a similar powerplant in a lighter, modern vehicle should do even better.
I must ask the quesiton- is it even REMOTELY possible to protect the reactor from impact forces this likes of which it would surely encounter in car accidents? What are the worst impacts it could suffer- lets see... two cars hitting head-on at around 150mph? Or a car going off of a very tall bridge? Could some type of 'super-cage' be devised, along with a failsafe that, upon reaching a critical impact force point would stop the reactor?
ASSUMING that impact design is sufficient, the other problem that you'd get is Johnathon P. Terrorist having free access to all of that uranium. That's probably the harder part to solve.
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