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wierd future plan to make nukes from moon gas

. | 27.01.2006 13:34 | Technology

What multibillion pound, crackpot scheme will the boffins think up next?

One of the future projects proposed for the international space station is to send a craft to the moon to collect Helium-3, and return it to earth.

Helium-3 isotope is powerful, non-polluting and generates almost no radioactive. Scientists claim it is for next generation, fussion nuclear power, but many suspect it could be used in future weapons.



Russia plans to mine the Moon
 http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/65F240F9-CC80-4677-93D6-EBCACE8E7A45.htm

Helium-3
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

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