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Russia plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next few years
(www.independent.co.uk)
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So I'm curious, normally a nuclear power plant uses mass amounts of water to heat and cool in a steam based engine/turbine essentially, thus creating the power. Would this not take at least 300 successful moon landings just to get the water there, let alone the storage for the water and any other materials needed. So I imagine minimal 500 moon landings to get a small makeshift power station? Or am I missing something drastic here..
There is ice on the moon, so it's possible they're planning on harvesting that.
Also liquid hydrogen and oxygen can be shipped up much easier than water directly.
It's still the same amount of mass. It doesn't get lighter because you ship it as it's component parts.
Weight, sure. But with water the main issue is volume - water simply doesn't compress that well. The volume of water you can carry will give you much less weight than the same volume of compressed oxygen and hydrogen gases.