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Russia and China plan to install a nuclear power plant on the Moon (intlmonitor.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Filled with water from where?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Earth, I assume. Could also be solid metal or filled with liquid sodium or something if it needs to circulate.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sounds pretty costly to bring all that up
But yeah, solid metal as heat transfer could work. Still how to drive a turbine?

[–] Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Could you skip the turbine and slap a bunch of peltier elements on the reactor?
Probably not super efficient, what with the vacuum of space being bad at absorbing hear, and if I recall right peltier produces more power the larger heat gradient.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Isn’t there water in the lunar regolith?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There are a lot of seas on the Moon after all.