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- noun physics The rare
isotope of helium, 32He, that has a singleneutron
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Examples
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The man was a three-year contract worker, his only job to send shipments of an energy source called helium-3 back to Earth.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Any strife over lunar land, governance, and resources (helium-3, basically the real reason moon colonization is happening now) is probably going to occur anyways, whether the initial outpost is cooperatively built or not.
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Sam Bell, assisted by his robotic aid GERTY, is the sole engineer on the lunar base handling the helium-3 extraction.
[BLU-RAY REVIEW] Moon « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010
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Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quoted on government-sanctioned news site ChinaNews. com describing plans to collect three dimensional images of the Moon for future mining of Helium 3: “There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on Earth, while on the Moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach one to five million tons.”
Is A New Space Race On? Is Helium 3 China’s Hidden Lunar Agenda? | Disinformation 2008
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“If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year.”
Is A New Space Race On? Is Helium 3 China’s Hidden Lunar Agenda? | Disinformation 2008
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It contains helium-3, a non radioactive isotope that fuels clean nuclear fusion.
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It contains helium-3, a non radioactive isotope that fuels clean nuclear fusion.
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The Lunar Industries corporation has given the world cheap energy thanks to a helium-3 mining operation on the far side of the Moon.
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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It contains helium-3, a non radioactive isotope that fuels clean nuclear fusion.
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Our room was a maintenance node on a helium-3 tanker which rotated slowly to even out solar heating on its hull.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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