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Um, uh, um, uh...where to start? "Mined" from where? How?
by Bud 7y ago
Um, uh, um, uh...where to start?
"Mined" from where? How?
- ianai 7y agoThe moon? Asteroids? Or even just ship up unrefined ore such that a catastrophic failure can’t threaten the population.
- cblades 7y agoWhat risks make that extraordinary cost worthwhile?
- mitchty 7y agoNeither of the first two are options... at all realistically, nither uranium nor thorium exist in anything below a large planetary size body in any quantity: https://www.quora.com/Do-uranium-and-thorium-exist-in-significant-quantities-in-our-solar-systems-asteroid-belt https://www.quora.com/Do-uranium-and-thorium-exist-in-signif... And shipping up unrefined ore is also a bit of a ludicrous idea for mass reasons and the rocket equation alone. You do realize you can isolate a nuclear reactor core from explosions on rockets right? What catastrophic failures are you attempting to design your solution of avoiding a nuclear reactor around?
- BAReF00t 7y agoThe moon's dust contains huge amounts of helium-3. Which apparently is an amazing power source. Also, why fission? We do have working fusion reactors. They are called hydrogen bombs. (The outer part, at least.) As long as you can keep the G forces low ...
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> Which apparently is an amazing power source Theoretically, for reactors we don't have.