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Originally Posted by mickss

The biggest reason for returning to the moon is helium-3, a very rare form of helium. If as some suspect there is helium-3 on the moon it could be used for cold fusion reactors and with it, no nuclear waste to deal with or reactor failures, like Three Mile Island.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19296/

Might want to read that article again.

Just beneath this.

If fusion power's arrival date has remained constantly 50 years away since 1958, why would helium-3 suddenly make fusion power more feasible?

Thus, whatever materials are used in a deuterium-tritium fusion power plant will have to endure serious punishment. And if that's achievable, when that fusion reactor is eventually decommissioned, there will still be a lot of radioactive waste.