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    NASA boosts plans for nuclear reactor on the Moon

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    1. BadBadBenBernanke on

      With what money and planned by what staff? Last time I checked both of those were being cut at NASA.

    3. Muzle84 on

      Again? HAHAHA!

      Good luck in the long term with shallow moonquakes that occur every two hours and last several minutes.

      Earth (and Sun) tides. Also, moon is cooling hence shrinking, crust cracks.

    4. ChocoPuddingCup on

      Sorry, why? The only real reason seems to be for making a ‘keep out zone’ since actually owning land outside of Earth is prohibited via the UN. There needs to be long-term plans to doing things, not just deciding on a whim. Space is damn dangerous; five to six years to accomplish this is pretty ambitious, especially since our current government seems to enjoy slashing NASA’s budget.

    5. Dot_Classic on

      Cover story for about of taxpayer money that will vanish into a black hole of “studies” and “contracts” that will never actually lead to anything. It’s a scam.

    6. R-Dragon_Thunderzord on

      So, farmers can’t have a climate satellite they rely upon to plan their season, because the data is detrimentally against the narrative of climate change deniers, but we are going for nuclear reactors on the moon? Wow, love the priorities.

    7. Bowler_Pristine on

      We have not built one in the us for decades but hey let’s waste billions and build one on the moon, that makes sense!

    8. Evil_Eukaryote on

      All we want to do is put a few people up there for a few days.

      This is like asking your dad for a ride to work, but instead, he just promises to buy you a tractor trailer and then doesn’t take you to work.

    11. LadyMhicWheels on

      There are so many sci-fi warning books about how we die if we fvck up the moon 🌝.

    13. ARobertNotABob on

      Soundbite, nothing more.
      Like much else Trump & Co have eviscerated, American interests will lose to China hand-over-fist now.

    14. General-Cover-4981 on

      Yeah, right. NASA is like that clip from the Eddie Izzard show, “Go to the moon? We couldn’t even afford to put a man on a ladder!”

    16. UndocumentedMartian on

      But why? I’m sure it will be required once there’s power hungry infrastructure on the moon but there’s nothing there right now. Small scale infrastructure can be powered by solar panels.