/sci/ - Science & Math

When will we start chucking big reactors into space? Starship will give us the ability to get where we want to go with a lot of stuff, but we need to start figuring out what we're gonna do when we get there. Any real colony will need a lot of power to get going and sustain itself. We are a long way off from being able to bootstrap a reactor from ISRU and I could honestly see Earthers being against that. Would a mars colony get the Iran treatment if they started up a local nuclear industry?