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Carbidereaper t1_j5fyz88 wrote

Reply to comment by Legitimate_Plum674 in Wind Energy Could Power Human Colonies On Mars, Finds Study by upyoars

It would be much easier to just ship raw plutonium than uranium and use it to just make MOX ( mixed oxide fuel ) a single decommissioned nuclear weapons core contains 46 pounds of plutonium. Enough to run a 6 megawatt reactor for nearly a century

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Legitimate_Plum674 t1_j5gd6nj wrote

I know nothing about that. But it sounds sci-fi enough for me to like the idea.

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