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Russia and China to Build a Nuclear Plant on the Moon.
coppercone2:
this sounds like the plot of 'star wreck'
EPAIII:
Build a nuclear reactor on the moon?
Well, let's see, Russia can't build a tank past WWII models that doesn't go "Pop Goes the Wiesel, er the Turret that is" when struck by almost anything larger than a 30 caliber (7.62mm¹ for you metric types) bullet. Actually their WWII models do that too.
And China has three aircraft carriers but no viable aircraft to use with them. Oh, and have you ever purchased anything from Ali Express? One month delivery and their electronic parts fall apart if soldered for a second time.
And those wonder houses of technology are going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon? I bet it will be a small one. And I wouldn't be surprised if it melts down after a year or two. If it takes even that long.
And it's not a lack of brain power. They have some excellent scientists and engineers. It's the political bosses who are so corrupt that everything gets stolen or "misdirected".
Note 1: I have to admire the European nations which have changed their military rifles to a metric caliber. Lets see, 30 caliper = 0.300 INCHES = 25.4 mm/inch X 0.300" = 7.62mm. Viola, it's metric! That's it, a mathematically exact conversion. No decimal places past the "2", just zeros to infinity. Boy was that ever so,so smart of them. No more old-fashioned units of measure there.
Andy Chee:
--- Quote from: strawberry on April 25, 2024, 09:45:27 am ---high power reactor cooling in space will be biggest challenge because there is no way to dissipate excess heat
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Sure there is. The same way the sun sends its heat to earth. Radiation.
Heat can transfer in four ways; phase change, conduction, convection, and radiation.
Whether a high powered nuclear reactor can be cooled via radiation alone, now that's an engineering challenge.
Coordonnée_chromatique:
--- Quote from: Andy Chee on April 26, 2024, 06:19:00 am ---
--- Quote from: strawberry on April 25, 2024, 09:45:27 am ---high power reactor cooling in space will be biggest challenge because there is no way to dissipate excess heat
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Whether a high powered nuclear reactor can be cooled via radiation alone, now that's an engineering challenge.
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Hello, this is an idot question but, if you radiated energy hits nothing there is no heat transfer ?
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on April 25, 2024, 11:35:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: soldar on March 11, 2024, 12:45:05 am ---
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 08, 2024, 01:01:34 am --- The moon doesn't rotate, so no night or day.
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Of course the moon rotates. Once a month.
The dark side of the moon is a music album, not any description of reality.
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Which was what I meant to convey, but stuffed it up.
I was thinking about how the moon presents the same side to us, & that there was always some part of the moon lit by the sun.
I neglected the fact that we don't see all of the same side, all of the time.
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Correct. We see more than 50% of the lunar surface.
Since the 1850s this has been used to show remarkable stereoscopic views of the moon, originally for Brewster viewers. Get out your red-blue anaglyphs, and see the football :)
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