TITLE

Moon-fuel miner hopes to start fusion power countdown

PUB. DATE
July 2002
SOURCE
Engineer (00137758);7/19/2002, Vol. 291 Issue 7608, p4
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on a plan to mine nuclear fuel on the Moon. Possible financiers; Creation of a viable business proposal to extract the rare helium-3 isotope; Abundance of the fuel on the Moon.
ACCESSION #
7360708

Tags: NUCLEAR fuels;  MOON

 

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