Benefits seem minimal too - Uranium is high density. Creating water, oxygen, even rocket fuel, in situ makes perfect sense. Only once you have a nearly self-s

Benefits seem minimal too - Uranium is high density. Creating water, oxygen, even rocket fuel, in situ makes perfect sense. Only once you have a nearly self-sustaining group of colonies would you need to worry about insourcing fuel supply - and by then there may be better solutions to generate power (thorium, fusion, space based solar, etc)