China is planning to
mine moon for helium-3 fusion fuel. After the successful lunar probe Chang ‘e ,china is going a bit
ahead. Chang’e mission was very successful
for china to explore moon, but now with the Chang 5, china will bring
the first sample of fusion-ready helium-3.
Helium-3 is best to
be used as a fuel in nuclear fusion as no neutrons is generated as a reaction
product. The protons generated will have some charge which can be controlled
and contained using electromagnetic
fields. Moon has said to have a depot of atleast 5 million tons of helium-3
on its top surface level, whereas earth rarely
have it. But it is still a lot of year ahead and it will be very difficult to
do it and will require a lot of manwork
.
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