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Is MOON’s sci-fi vision of lunar helium-3 mining based in reality? (Scientific American)

Quoted: Gerald Kulcinski, a nuclear engineer and director of the Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison, has been researching the possibility of mining the moon’s helium-3 for decades. He is, along with Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, one of the concept’s most prominent advocates. (Schmitt wrote an article for Popular Mechanics in 2004 that describes a harvesting operation much like the one Bell manages at Sarang.)