atom-powered
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The government saves his life by rebuilding his body with atom-powered artificial limbs and other parts, giving him superhuman strength and speed and other powers.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017
Last week the atom-powered dream plane was one step closer to reality; the Air Force announced that it had contracted with Consolidated Vultee for an airframe to carry a nuclear-reaction engine.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a cost of $1.3 billion over five years, De Gaulle's program would provide 50 medium-range bombers, a handful of atomic missiles and an atom-powered sub.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dwight Eisenhower was talking about his plan for an atom-powered merchant ship to dramatize his "atoms for peace" program.
From Time Magazine Archive
The atom-powered Radiant Hope could no more make a planetary landing than the chemically-powered ships.
From Atom Drive by Charles Louis Fontenay
