NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4)

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But neither would be anywhere remotely as easy as “stick it next to a big body of water”, like we do here on Earth.

I was curious what the advantage of building on the moon would be anyway.

Potentially less regulation? Though I’m not even sure that would necessarily be true.

ETA: Never mind, I read the thread in MPSIMS:

NASA to work on building a nuclear reactor on the moon by the 2030s

The Transportation Secretary has directed NASA to start working on building a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, declaring it necessary to win the next space race. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172 How would that even work in lunar gravity? And who’s gonna install it?

They’re not proposing to build a reactor on the moon for its own sake, but to support building other stuff on the moon. So that answers my question.