From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!karn Newsgroups: net.space Title: Reactors on the moon Article-I.D.: eagle.522 Posted: Fri Sep 17 00:43:39 1982 Received: Fri Sep 17 03:32:40 1982 Gee, you'd have to be careful not to put all those waste dumps together on one side of the moon, or else they might reach a critical mass and explode and drive the moon out of its orbit to wander through the galaxy and encounter all kinds of aliens and weird things... Seriously, reactors do have the advantage of generating power (and much needed heat) during the long lunar night. I would suppose that both solar and nuclear sources would have their places on the moon. Remember that the ALSEP packages used radioisotope generators. Phil Karn