NASA seeks ideas for a nuclear reactor on the moon

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If you have an idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it. NASA has partnered with the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source.

The earth's shadow covers the full moon during a partial lunar eclipse, early Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. NASA and the nation's top federal nuclear research lab on Friday, Nov. 19, put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system. NASA is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source for missions to the moon by the end of the decade.

NASA and the nation’s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system. “Providing a reliable, high-power system on the moon is a vital next step in human space exploration, and achieving it is within our grasp,” Sebastian Corbisiero, the Fission Surface Power Project lead at the lab, said in a statement.

“I expect fission surface power systems to greatly benefit our plans for power architectures for the moon and Mars and even drive innovation for uses here on Earth,” Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, said in a statement.

 

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NASA seems more like the Dumb, Blind and Stupid these days! Our own planet is in environmental shambles. So, of course they want to export that same reckless industrialization to other planets. And, I'm sure they'll farm the job out to one of the Tax-Avoidance Billionaires!

Wasn't that tried before with disastrous results? space1999

Let's put Greta, Soros, Gates, those of Davos, Von der Leyen on the moon and let's what happens.

Put in on rocket?

inf3rence Maybe don’t?

Why? The sun never stops shining in the moon!

Too costly.

They should call elonmusk first before they do any of this.

i dunno I'd probably get all the parts built here on earth and then send them to the moon and put it together

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