Comments on: Liquor & Glass — Sellafield/BNFL Keeping a Lid on It https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/liquor-glass-sellafieldbnfl-keeping-a-lid-on-it Safeguarding Humanity Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:20:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: GaryChurch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/liquor-glass-sellafieldbnfl-keeping-a-lid-on-it#comment-154766 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:38:05 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=5493#comment-154766 To continue, the Moon has substantial nuclear resources in the form of thorium. Thorium reactors transported from the Moon to Off World colonies in the outer solar system is a future industry but in the interim we have to transport fissionables to the Moon. The safest method is with a human-rated capsule equipped with a powerful solid rocket escape system. The Space Launch System (SLS) is presently the only contender that qualifies as a nuclear material transport.

]]> By: Gary Michael Church https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/liquor-glass-sellafieldbnfl-keeping-a-lid-on-it#comment-154761 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:34:49 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=5493#comment-154761 Thank you for this post Tom. Actually how to safely transport nuclear material is critical to the future of the human race because it is the precursor to any human deep space travel B.E.L.O. (Beyond Earth and Lunar Orbit).

Chemical Propulsion is essentially useless for interplanetary travel. It serves us well though because it can get us to the Moon. The Moon is where we can light off nuclear systems without contaminating the magnetosphere.

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