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  • It depends where you are on the moon, if you are not on the poles you will have almost 15 days of darkness.

    Sure, solar panels are also a good option, but nuclear makes more sense in space than it does on earth, since costs to transport stuff into space are much higher, probably even higher than the power plant itself. So it makes sense to use the fuel with the highest power density.

    And it’s not that big of a deal if it breaks and spreads radioactivity, since you are exposed to lots of radioactivity on the moons surface anyway and the population will be much lower than here on earth.

    That doesn’t mean that nuclear on the moon will always make sense, but it is less stupid than you might think. Building new nuclear power plants for power production on earth is stupid though imo.