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Originally Posted by mapuc
When I say propulsion, I do not think of atomic propulsion, but more like fusion like propulsion. The Moon have lots of the ingrediens/material to make such a fusion possible. So building some kind of refinery on the moon, could be done during the production of the spaceship.
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Technically, fusion power is still nuclear power, it's just not fission power.
Besides the fact that nobody has yet built a fusion reactor capable of providing actual sustained power, let alone be able to be used as spacecraft propulsion. The moon doesn't really have all that much of the Helium-3 that keeps getting cited as a source for fusion fuel. The outer system gas giants have much more of it, but they're a bit far away...