Have they even considered how they're going to cool it?? There's no water there and the vacuum of space doesn't conduct heat!!!! wtf????
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Use regolith to conduct heat away? I don't know!
aug 5, 2025, 12:54 am • 3 0 • view
That's the brilliant part! They don't have to cool it. After giving billions of dollars to some contractors, probably mainly SpaceX, they never actually launch it, and quietly cancel the project.
aug 5, 2025, 12:57 am • 6 1 • view
This. #USAtoday (to borrow a tag line): No law, no health, no food, no logistics, no science. Millions of Americans dead by December. The brain-drain fawcett is on full flow, & SpaceX, just like Tesla, is corroding from within. The US hasn't the smarts to build that reactor, let alone launch it.
aug 5, 2025, 8:40 am • 3 0 • view
If SpaceX launches it, it'll probably blow up on the pad and irradiate the local landscape for a thousand years.
aug 5, 2025, 6:23 am • 2 0 • view
They have done more than 500 launches and only one failure on the launch pad. Also they have a spacecraft that has a launch escape system. It can fly nuclear material to safety in case of rocket failure. There is no other system with similar proven capability.
aug 5, 2025, 10:54 am • 0 0 • view
So many risks.
aug 5, 2025, 10:08 am • 2 0 • view
You misunderstood. According to what we understand as applicable space law, the first country to plant a reactor can legitimately say to other countries they can't come closer due to safety issues. It's an exclusion zone, therefore a key political technology as well as a power supply.
aug 5, 2025, 8:05 am • 1 0 • view
Nuclear reactor designs for space use coolant loops to carry heat from the cold side of the thermoelectrics (or the Stirling engines) to radiator fins that disperse the heat to space. Which does limit the power output to be proportional to the surface area of the heat sink.
aug 5, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 0 • view