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    US to Fast-Track Plan for Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

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    3. Zealousideal_Cup416 on

      How and why? NASA’s budget is severely cut and I don’t think we’ve built anything on the moon beyond a couple of golf tee-offs. Ohhhhhh…. Makes sense now. Trump wants new golfing experiences and worries it wont get done before his death, so they’re doing everything they can to make it happen.

    4. pureformality on

      Ok now that’s based and it would genuinely be a gigantic, century defining technological breakthrough. Space is the new frontier. 

    7. mudbuttcoffee on

      For why????

      Oh yeah… to give money to corporations to “develop” the plan…only to find that the plan is reduculous and unacheivable

    8. The_Wandering_Ones on

      For what purpose? What would it power? Is it to power something on Earth? How would you transmit the power it creates to Earth? Through delusion?

    9. fullload93 on

      Why in the ever loving fuck would someone want nuclear on the moon for a future lunar base? It would make 1000% more sense to have solar and battery power than nuclear considering the moon gets a shitload of sunlight. Also would be significantly easier than nuclear.

    10. objecter12 on

      Fucking sure, why not?

      This’ an efficient use of resources and is possible, absolutely.

    11. Still-Ambassador2283 on

      I’ll believe it when I see it loaded on a payload module being integrated onto a rocket.

      Until then, wunderwaffen.

    12. ElectricChocoDad on

      My unscientific hot take. How would you maintain cooling a reactor on the moon? What would be used as a readily accessible coolant? I feel as though this is not feasible until the cost of launching tonnage into space drastically decreases.

    13. SingularityCentral on

      Real world/road rules star Sean Duffy has decreed that we must have a nuclear reactor on the moon… But we can’t spend a lot of money on it.

      What a time to be alive!

    14. NeedAVeganDinner on

      In this thread: people who don’t understand that we should probably do this regardless of the current political environment and reap the long term benefits of whatever scientific advancements are needed to make it possible.

    15. sendep7 on

      There are technically a few small ones up there already. They brought em up to run the science experiments after they left.

    17. Ohuigin on

      *”A rat done bit my sister Nell.
      (with Whitey on the Moon)
      Her face and arms began to swell.
      (and Whitey’s on the Moon)
      I can’t pay no doctor bill.
      (but Whitey’s on the Moon)
      Ten years from now I’ll be paying still.
      (while Whitey’s on the Moon)”*

      [A spoken word from 19(FUCKING!!)70 by Gil Scott-Heron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_on_the_Moon)

    18. Intrepid_Chard_3535 on

      I wish it was the dumbest thing today but I just read a President harrasing Taylor Swift 

    20. Knight_thrasher on

      They can’t regulate a power plant on earth how are they going to regulate one on the Moon

    21. marvborg on

      This is going to be as amazing as Trump’s healthcare plan which I believe is due in… two weeks. Can’t wait!

    24. iRedFive on

      Have you seen the newer Time Machine movie?! You want Morlocks?! That’s how you get Morlocks!

    26. InSight89 on

      What are they going to launch it on? Giant slingshots? It’s not like NASA has the budget for it.

    29. ATVLover on

      And here’s where we crack the moon in half and have a situation like in the Time Machine or Thundarr the Barbarian.