Carla

Hi there! Do you like airplanes? What if I told you… someone wanted to make a plane fly with nuclear power? That’s like giving a plane a tiny sun inside!

This crazy idea was called Project Pluto! It was a plan to build a super strong, super fast, nuclear-powered airplane. Nuclear energy comes from a nuclear reaction. Tiny atoms split — that’s called fission — and it makes a LOT of heat!