The project to develop this reactor has been in existence since 2020. It has yet to produce even a 10 KW prototype, let alone the 40 KW production model.
It has to be noted that space-based fission reactprs have enormous reliability problems. The only experimental test project the U.S. ever put into orbit, in the mid-sixties, failed after only 43 days. The Soviets/Russians have been working for decades to try to develop reactors in this power class, and have yet to come up with anything they're willing to put into space.
I expect this thing will eventually be downgraded to a bank of nuclear thermo-electric Stirling generators, which seems to be a lot closer to meeting necessary safety and reliability standards, unless Trump is willing to give NASA Apollo-level funding. Thr Artemis project is already burning through an already exorbitant budget and not making a lot of progress doing things we should already know how to do. Building out and proving out new technology is far more expensive.
No, he didn't (keep Epstein out of the news cycle) and a good thing too. I woke up at 2 am and couldn't go back to sleep, so I watched some MSNBC news programs. From their coverage, I thought Epstein would be on all the front pages. No such luck.
Ta, Marcie. So, while That Thing in the Offal Office is ALL over the Epstein files, and will so remain, Sean Duffy is singlehandedly going to build a moon base powered by The Nuclear? Hell has frozen over. And I prophesy that the Epstein Memorial Ballroom is never, ever going to be built; the East Wing will remain just that.
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Let's start with the fact that Sean Duffy knows as much about spaceflight as he does about aviation, which is practically nothing. So while he talks about "building" a reactor on the moon as we are going to send bulldozers and cement mixers and construction crew to the moon, NASA plans to build the reactor on the Earth and land it on the Moon. That means the reactor will be small, limited to a few tons, maybe at most ten tons and be capable of generation maybe a 10 kilowatts of power. The big trick will be how to **safely** launch into orbit since it will have to be loaded with the fuel rods before launch. If people are paranoid about reactors now, think how they will feel about a reactor on a rocket!
NASA, being reality based has long used solar cell technology. On reason NASA has been exploring small fission reactors is because the intensity of light falls off with the square of the distance. It's great around Earth, not to bad around Mars but get kind of useless past Mars. They have been using nuclear thermal piles but there's a limit to how much power those can generate. Solar calls on Earth need batteries to provide power over night. But night on the moon lasts two weeks, during which the moon gets frightfully cold so the energy requirements are pretty high. NASA could send along a lot of batteries or a nuclear reaction.
Also Butch and Suri were never *stranded* in space. They always had a way back to earth riding on one of Elon Musk's Dragon spaceships. Claims that they were stranded was just one of many of Trump's lies.
Sheesh! Everybody knows the moon is just a slide projected onto the skydome, just like all the stars and comets and asteroids and blackholes and quasars and dark matter and the so-called "planets" and the bulb is the sun. The tides? You can't explain that.
Geez, Marcie, leave the space stuff to someone who knows a little bit about space. There is so much misinformation and distortion worthy of the Trump administration here
The project to develop this reactor has been in existence since 2020. It has yet to produce even a 10 KW prototype, let alone the 40 KW production model.
It has to be noted that space-based fission reactprs have enormous reliability problems. The only experimental test project the U.S. ever put into orbit, in the mid-sixties, failed after only 43 days. The Soviets/Russians have been working for decades to try to develop reactors in this power class, and have yet to come up with anything they're willing to put into space.
I expect this thing will eventually be downgraded to a bank of nuclear thermo-electric Stirling generators, which seems to be a lot closer to meeting necessary safety and reliability standards, unless Trump is willing to give NASA Apollo-level funding. Thr Artemis project is already burning through an already exorbitant budget and not making a lot of progress doing things we should already know how to do. Building out and proving out new technology is far more expensive.
I don't care if he's from north of Hwy 8, fucker is an embarrassment ti Wisco.
No, he didn't (keep Epstein out of the news cycle) and a good thing too. I woke up at 2 am and couldn't go back to sleep, so I watched some MSNBC news programs. From their coverage, I thought Epstein would be on all the front pages. No such luck.
Isn't that supposed to be "...colonize the whole universe with their tall, busty, Aryan jeans."...?
Ta, Marcie. So, while That Thing in the Offal Office is ALL over the Epstein files, and will so remain, Sean Duffy is singlehandedly going to build a moon base powered by The Nuclear? Hell has frozen over. And I prophesy that the Epstein Memorial Ballroom is never, ever going to be built; the East Wing will remain just that.
There is no military reason to put bombs on the moon. It’d be an effective if really expensive way of getting rid of the nuclear stockpile.
Oh, geez, Wonkette, ruining that poor Sean Duffy’s village idiot version of the moon landing with pesky FACTS and QUESTIONS!?!? You are so cruel!
I finished refilling pill organizers for next 2 weeks, AND I picked up all the pills I dropped on floor. AMD I took a shower and brushed teeth earlier. I AM AMAZING.
That you are (amazing.)
I only do my pill organizing one week at a time, but yes, it's one of the "joys" of getting old.
I need to go downstairs to get instant mashed potatoes for dinner.
Let's start with the fact that Sean Duffy knows as much about spaceflight as he does about aviation, which is practically nothing. So while he talks about "building" a reactor on the moon as we are going to send bulldozers and cement mixers and construction crew to the moon, NASA plans to build the reactor on the Earth and land it on the Moon. That means the reactor will be small, limited to a few tons, maybe at most ten tons and be capable of generation maybe a 10 kilowatts of power. The big trick will be how to **safely** launch into orbit since it will have to be loaded with the fuel rods before launch. If people are paranoid about reactors now, think how they will feel about a reactor on a rocket!
NASA, being reality based has long used solar cell technology. On reason NASA has been exploring small fission reactors is because the intensity of light falls off with the square of the distance. It's great around Earth, not to bad around Mars but get kind of useless past Mars. They have been using nuclear thermal piles but there's a limit to how much power those can generate. Solar calls on Earth need batteries to provide power over night. But night on the moon lasts two weeks, during which the moon gets frightfully cold so the energy requirements are pretty high. NASA could send along a lot of batteries or a nuclear reaction.
Also Butch and Suri were never *stranded* in space. They always had a way back to earth riding on one of Elon Musk's Dragon spaceships. Claims that they were stranded was just one of many of Trump's lies.
Sheesh! Everybody knows the moon is just a slide projected onto the skydome, just like all the stars and comets and asteroids and blackholes and quasars and dark matter and the so-called "planets" and the bulb is the sun. The tides? You can't explain that.
Didn't George Bailey lasso the moon?
Hey Marcie! That's a headline like Dok might have written! 👏
"I've seen smarter cabinets at IKEA." --protest signs in America this year
That's a good one. I'd make one and carry it at the next demonstration if I didn't have my camera in my hands.
Now I know waaay too much about Duffy.
Geez, Marcie, leave the space stuff to someone who knows a little bit about space. There is so much misinformation and distortion worthy of the Trump administration here