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

Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Navy threw a new and disturbing factor into Russian calculations with the announcement that some time this year California's Mare Island Navy Yard will begin construction of the world's first atom-powered, guided missile submarine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rest of his years would be spent in a cubicle in some atom-powered plant, where he'd have his own button to push for two hours every day.

From The Executioner by Riley, Frank