NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon

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75. It's not like the moon is otherwise hospitable to humans.

Even on a good day, wearing a space suit, radiation exposure is 200 times what it is on earth, and two or three times what visitors to the International Space Station normally experience.

On a bad day, depending upon the mood of our sun, it could be much worse. Best have someplace underground to hide.

Any meteor event that could significantly damage a silicon carbide nuclear reactor fuel core would do much worse damage to any humans who happened to be about. Cleaning up a breached reactor core would probably be a much nicer job than recovering freeze dried human remains, whole or in parts.

Personally I can't think of many reasons for humans to visit the moon. It's a harsh place.

Radio and optical telescopes on the far side of the moon might be interesting but I suppose those could be assembled and maintained by robots.

Solar power is problematic on the moon because of the two week nights.