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Trips to Mars may be OFF: The SUN has changed in a way we've NEVER SEEN

Anonymous Custard
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Re: Nuclear

I wonder if the cooling required for nuclear reactors could involve the void?

I would doubt it - cooling is the transfer of heat energy from the hot thing into something colder, and whilst space certainly qualifies as colder, it is rather lacking in the critical "something" to transfer into in any useful amounts. Hence why the ideal thermal insulator is a vacuum, such as in flasks etc.

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