When a country like India conducts a mission like ‘Chandrayan’, World eyebrows rose. Isn’t it ridiculous that a developing country like India where plenty of poverty still persist conducting such tests, which costs a lot.

There were so many aspects and reasons, but the main purpose and one of the topmost motto of the mission ‘Chandrayan’, must be to find out and detect the availability of Helium 3. Helium 3 is an Isotope of Helium, which is rare on earth, but is sought to power Nuclear Fusion and could be a valuable source of energy in future.

Researchers and space enthusiasts see Helium 3 as the perfect fuel source, extremely potent, non-polluting, with virtually no radioactive byproduct. It is the fuel of the future and the trouble is hardly any of it is found on the earth but it is abundantly available on the moon.

Helium 3 fusion energy may be the key to the future space exploration and settlement. Scientists estimate there are about one million tonnes of Helium 3 on the moon that is enough to power the world for thousands of years.

The equivalent of a single space shuttle load or roughly 2.5 tonnes could supply the entire United States energy needs for a year. When the solar winds, the rapid stream of charged particle emitted by the sun strikes the moon, Helium 3 is deposited in the powdered soil.

Today Helium 3 would have a cash value of $4 Billion a tonne in terms of its energy equivalent in oil. Helium 3 fusion would produce little residual radioactivity.

Helium 3 which has a nucleus with 2 Protons and one Neutron and a reactor based on the fusion of Helium 3 and Deuterium which has a single nuclear Proton and Neutron would produce very few Neutrons i.e.about 1% of the number generated by the Deuterium-tritium reaction. You could safely build a Helium 3 plant in the middle of a big city.