Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon

[NNadir]

87. There is probably no one on this board as pronuclear energy as I am. This said...

...while a number of fission reactors have operated in orbit - one crashed into Northern Canada some years back, as I remember - there is absolutely no good reason to put a fission reactor on the moon.

I note that the seismometer left on the Moon by one of the Apollo missions is nuclear powered, with a radiothermoelectric generator (RTG) powered by ²³⁸Pu, and almost all of the deep space missions have been similarly powered, they had a purpose and required low power. (The Voyager missions are now heading out of the solar system and still communicating on nuclear power.)

From my perspective this is a typically nutty idea put forth by these people as a distraction as the continue the engineering the collapse of the United States.

We need, desperately, nuclear reactors on Earth for now, not much else.

I note, with some regret and dismay, that many of the posts in this thread feature the usual ignorant antinuclear paranoia, including, if I read this right, blowing up the moon. One sees these things and one doesn't want to believe it.

Another very, very, very amusing one that I believe I saw in very quick scan is that a nuclear reactor on the moon would make the moon uninhabitable. Did I really see that? Um, um, um...

The moon is in a fairly intensive radiation field. All of outer space is.