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8-24-2007 3:26 AM
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willhelm says:
I've been wondering.
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8-26-2007 6:08 PM
cniq_cniq
If you ask me, talk of a return trip is more about justifying NASA's budget. What good is fusionable material to the US when we haven't built a new nuclear power facility in decades and do not seem likely to do so in the immediate future despite all the lip service energy independence receives?
8-26-2007 6:15 PM
skwirlinator
I believe it is our drive to reach to new destinations and make new discoveries because we are very inquisitive creatures.
We will go back to the moon and to mars and to titan. Eventually we will even set up bases on other worlds. It will be driven by commerce not governments.
9-5-2007 12:30 PM
ezsparky
He3 used as a fuel in a fusion reactor produces very little radioactive waste. What little it does produce has a very short half life of, if I recall correctly, about 75 years. The He3 reaction is not as damaging to the inner reactor walls.

I believe that it is also easier to get to fuse as well. I'm not 100% sure about this though.

It turns out that the moons soil is packed full of He3 and should be a fairly straight forward process to extract it from the lunar soil.

Because the fusion reaction of He3 produces very little radioactive waste and what little it does only stays radioactive for a short time, I do not think there would be much reason for people to protest the building...
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