India considers joining Russia, China to build nuclear plant on Moon.
India considers joining Russia, China to build nuclear plant on Moon.
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It's to serve as a power source for a potential moon base, apparently.
Ohh, I was confused because I assumed the power would somehow be transported to Earth, which seems rather inefficient.
I like the idea personally
As an infrastructure project its conceptually pretty sick. A nuclear power plant would be fairly ideal for the first long-term human presence on the moon.
The problem is that it's Russia and China doing it.
a country that is exceedingly good at space, and a country that is exceedingly good at infrastructure. sounds good to me.
Don't be obtuse.
There are other concerns with developing space tech besides ones concerning competence and expertise.
Even that is worth questioning, as Russia is suffering historical levels of brain-drain for obvious reasons.
Excuse you.
China to this day still can't bloody land spent rocket stages safely away from populated areas and you want them to fire off radioactive material into space and hope it doesn't accident crash land back on populated areas?