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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do they need to protect it from anything ? There is no atmosphere on the moon and cosmic radiation is already there.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I honestly don't know how the moon's physics work but it does appear to be covered in giant fuckin craters. So I was assuming there isn't much to stop something from smashing into the nuclear power plant once constructed and causing potential fallout risks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As far as I remember 99% of costs of nuclear reactor is building this giant concrete around it so radiation don't go out and kill us because we have atmosphere and breath air. Since radiation is everywhere on the moon I don't think we need to care. There is no such thing as nuclear reactor explosion as far as I remember ( this is only media thing) so the core will just melt down and radiate. Still don't know if it will change anything ( I don't think so ).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it's unlikely to hit that spot. They get a crater forming impact every 5 - 10 years. But those big ones you see are like millions of years old. Supposedly there was an impact event in 1178 witnessed by some Monks, but they haven't been able to tie out the crater to it as the one they suspected was later determined to likely be 4 Million years old.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago

Would you spend trillions of dollars building something that was "unlikely" to result in catastrophic failure? I would prolly want more confidence of its longevity before dumping generations of wealth to build a structure that will cost billions more even to repair minor maintenance to.