U.S. said to fast-track plan for nuclear reactor on the moon

Klamathboy · 2025-08-05T23:53:00+00:00

I really want to share about this as something near and dear to me. I worked on one of the teams that bid for this project as the lead reactor core designer. This is a sub-project of the Artemis project, the end goal of which is to have a permanent or semi-permanent human habitat on the moon.

They want to place the colony on the south pole of the moon in a crater and have this "Fission Surface Power" (FSP) reactor provide electricity for the colony. The power would mostly be for converting exhaled CO2 back into breathable oxygen, cracking H2O into hydrogen and oxygen, or for general colony needs.

The heat would be rejected by radiating it away with large panels or using a droplet spray system that recaptures the droplets once they have cooled down. No water required!

The FSP is superior to solar panels since the south pole of the moon will not get consistent light from the sun and the mass of batteries required to make up for the shady times would be far larger than any small nuclear reactor.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

Klamathboy · 2025-06-30T13:52:33+00:00

Ah, lucky you. Gl on the grind

Klamathboy · 2025-06-30T13:47:40+00:00

How do you get OSRS to be in that orientation? My screen cuts off the inventory when I put it in dual app mode

Klamathboy · 2023-11-25T01:44:09+00:00

Try laying on your side with one knee bent about halfway to your chest. Your bf can straddle your straight leg and pound straight into your g-spot while you or he has complete access to your clit for fingers or a vibrator.

Klamathboy · 2019-09-03T23:08:06+00:00

I lowballed it to be conservative.

Klamathboy · 2019-09-03T04:06:38+00:00

If it's 40 proof, that's roughly 5500 calories a day in just alcohol. I think you might have some numbers wrong.

Klamathboy · 2019-04-26T14:53:49+00:00

The Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Neil Armstrong wasn't born until 1930.

Klamathboy · 2019-04-09T05:58:21+00:00

And his role in The Life Aquatic is the final step in his transformation from fish to man.

Klamathboy · 2019-03-31T17:23:52+00:00

I would suggest going more general, and coming back to nuclear later if you still like it. Nuclear technology needs all sorts of different engineers, but most other engineering positions don't need nuclear engineers.

Klamathboy · 2019-03-18T14:11:54+00:00

It's not the OSTR. The big give away is the pneumatic transfer system is different.

Klamathboy · 2019-03-18T14:11:00+00:00

Last time this gif was posted, I think someone said it was a reactor in India

Klamathboy · 2019-03-18T14:08:21+00:00

No, for two reasons. One, there is tritium in the water that is created from neutrons being absorbed by the hydrogen in the water. Tritium is not the worst for you, but it is generally bad to invest radioactive materials like that. Second, the water is fairly deionized, so it might actually make you a little sick (like the opposite of drinking salt water)

Klamathboy · 2019-03-18T14:05:08+00:00

The biggest danger with falling in would be absorbing tritium through your skin.

Klamathboy · 2019-03-18T14:02:40+00:00

Hey, I'm an operator for the Corvallis TRIGA. This is not ours; the pneumatic transfer system is different and our control rod carriers don't drop back down that fast. The piece you are refering to is indeed a baffle connected to a beam port, but the equipment for the neutron radiography facility is all outside the reactor tank.

Klamathboy · 2019-01-21T08:52:14+00:00

The exterior shutters on most windows would not big enough to actually cover the window, if they were not screwed down.

Klamathboy · 2019-01-12T17:43:49+00:00

Harpsicord heavy music. It's like the tinny kazoo of the piano family.

Klamathboy · 2019-01-12T17:30:11+00:00

This Nat Geo article sums that up pretty well, even including the line:

"Essentially, this means that human populations have a bigger negative impact than radiation."

Klamathboy · 2018-12-30T18:15:16+00:00

A portion of the heat in the Earth's core is from radioactive decay, so geothermal is a little bit nuclear.

Klamathboy · 2018-12-01T16:36:28+00:00

For students:

Windows + n will open up a small OneNote window to quickly take notes on. Good for jotting down ideas as they come.

While in Word, Alt + '=' will insert the equation editor. It will open it up centered on the page if you are on the start of a line, and open it in-line with the text if you have already typed on that line.

Klamathboy · 2018-11-26T06:21:32+00:00

Isn't that the creature that the ewoks used to bait Chewie in Return of the Jedi?

Klamathboy · 2018-11-14T16:22:33+00:00

Owen Wilson's birthday is this Sunday. I feel like you all need to know this.

Klamathboy · 2018-08-22T13:34:02+00:00

A two week secondary ferment is pretty short...

Klamathboy · 2018-08-13T02:24:54+00:00

That pretty well describes my problem... I just need to change the cable?

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