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Ha. Later in my nuclear career, I realized the genius of Doc's claim:

"Does it run like on regular unleaded gasoline?"

"Unfortunately, no. It requires something with a little more kick: Plutonium!"

"Ah, Plutonium. Wait a minute, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?"

"Hey hey hey! Keep rolling! keep rolling there! no no no no! This sucker's electrical! But I needed a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need"

I should try that in public. No, those aren't nuclear plants over there. They're electrical! They just use nuclear reactions to generate the electricity you need.




"I'm sure in 1985 Plutonium is available at every corner drugstore!"


In part 3 Doc says that while the time circuits are powered by Mr Fusion, the engine runs on the old-fashioned unleaded gasoline.




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