Re:U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars
by iso1210 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:25AM
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Benefits seem minimal too - Uranium is high density.
Creating water, oxygen, even rocket fuel, in situ makes perfect sense.
Only once you have a nearly self-sustaining group of colonies would you need to worry about insourcing fuel supply - and by then there may be better solutions to generate power (thorium, fusion, space based solar, etc)
Setting up the facilities to mine, process and purify uranium on another planet does seem like a major technical challenge to me.