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RTG powered car could work, but the electrical power available would be rather small, they have horrendous power to weight ratio. Steam turbine powered by heat from the radio isotopes would work better, but would still be very very expensive due to cost of the isotopes.

An actual fission reactor generating steam would indeed be the best most likely, when you ignore small stuff like emergency cooling, all the control mechanisms and shielding. ;-)




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