Die NASA braucht Atomkraft für ihre Mondbasis. Hier ist der Plan des Weißen Hauses, es zu bekommen
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-nuclear-power-for-its-moon-base-heres-the-white-house-plan-to-get-it/
Die NASA braucht Atomkraft für ihre Mondbasis. Hier ist der Plan des Weißen Hauses, es zu bekommen
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-nuclear-power-for-its-moon-base-heres-the-white-house-plan-to-get-it/
16 Kommentare
Developing nuclear plants for space is a great idea. 20kW though seems *really* little.
How does the cooling work?
The White House does science???
Let me guess, it involves raw milk and ivermectin
Yeeeaahhh why don’t we just put a short pause on any complicated plans until the current administration goes away.
Without reading the article, my guess is uranium.
How do you cool it down in space ?
Non-paywalled version: [https://archive.is/wvTmO](https://archive.is/wvTmO)
Read the document.
This reads to be just another way to divert billions of dollars from Department of Energy and Department of Defense into the private pockets of the clowns running SMR startups.
Because ain’t no way they’re going to have a design ready to land on the moon by 2030. Especially given the current nuclear bro clowns who are already bilking us the taxpayers out of billions of dollars for their nonexistent SMR proposals.
Can’t wait for the moment when a complicated divorced couple saves it from meltdown while wrapped in only duct tape.
Went to space in the 60s on kilobytes worth of computing power. Hope they manage
Would this really be more effective than solar and batteries?
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Cut the science budget? Cause that’s what they’re trying to do.
I thought the white house wanted big beautiful coal?
I’m sure it will some derivative of an RTG or multiple RTG’s to supply power. As a former reactor operator I would imagine it will be several reactors as a form of redundancy much like how our modern carrier have two reactors. I would imagine there would be a combination of solar, batteries and reactor array.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[ECLSS](/r/Space/comments/1smb6cw/stub/ogd39a7 „Last usage“)|Environment Control and Life Support System|
|[RTG](/r/Space/comments/1smb6cw/stub/ogd8jeu „Last usage“)|Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[cryogenic](/r/Space/comments/1smb6cw/stub/ogdc1d8 „Last usage“)|Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure|
| |(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox|
|hydrolox|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
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