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Originally Posted by jyl

NASA has developed a fission reactor the size of a desk wastebasket that produces about 1 kW or about 1.3 HP. A larger model - but not that much larger - produces about 10 kW or 13 HP. For decades . . .

https://www.popsci.com/nuclear-reactors-mars

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-nuclear/u-s-tests-nuclear-power-system-to-sustain-astronauts-on-mars-idUSKBN1F72T8

Which means that atomic cars are coming!

We (and by "we" I mean ORNL a long time ago) designed, built and tested a nuclear reactor to power an airplane (Aircraft Reactor Experiment). Crazy stuff. I can still see the towers used to hoist a reactor up in the air for shielding tests...