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Russia and China to Build a Nuclear Plant on the Moon.

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SiliconWizard:
Well, conflating "non-visible" with "dark" was a case of ostrich policy.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 28, 2024, 11:28:31 pm ---Well, conflating "non-visible" with "dark" was a case of ostrich policy.

--- End quote ---

Words change their meaning over time.

A couple of centuries "dark" was often used to mean "hidden" or "unknown". Thus the "Dark Arts" were hidden/secret sorcery/rituals..

It is less than 200 years since the central regions of Africa became known to Europeans (e.g. the source(s) of the Nile, Congo), so it was quite reasonable to think of Africa as being the unknown/hidden/Dark continent.

Similarly, the moon did have an unknown/dark side until October 7th 1959. On that day Luna 3 returned photographs of the far side, and it ceased to be the Dark Side of the moon.

GigaJoe:
Thorium-based molten salt reactors that basically are manufactured in what amounts to a shipping container.   

KInda ... To elaborate it ....  Imagine 1 huge factory building 1000 cars  per day .  Or same quantity builds by 1000 small auto shops.   guess which one would be much cheaper.

To make project financially viable at a current state,  a nuclear plant should be at least 4-6 Mega watt operational,  with lifespan around 20-30 years. that translated around 1 Mw per unit.
Thorium reactors had a significant problems to scale at reasonable thermal power 3-4 Mwatt , due to difficulties to manage heat flow, evenly , and reactivity of nitrate salt + radiation, corrosion, and  quite short lifespan of overall unit due to all this factors simply did cancel any projects somewhere 70-s  ..

Sealed reactors , or modular reactors .... similar stuff  that in use on submarines ;   3 - problems ...   Currently prohibited cost  ;  What to do if shit happens ;  what to do when it depleted \ discharged or became non working - in volumes and follow up process ...


Btw  ...  compare price for NE5532 in ceramic ,  and same as space grade ,  radiation hardener chip ... yep .... Then multiply on amount, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, flow sensor , alpha beta gamma radiation sensors , tensor sensors , position sensors and other kinda  sensors just for that sealed reactor .....   

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