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  • Serious answer is the deeper you dig, the longer and wider your ventillation shafts need to be, and your fans need to be way more powerful. It will also be naturally hotter and wetter the deeper you go (giggity). This is fine for mines where you are running multicombos and dozers, they are built for that. But cascade enrichment centrifuges generate a ton of excess heat, require clean, climate controlled environment, are super sensitive to vibration and shocks, and require a fair amount of industrial computer power which is also rather delicate.

    You simply can’t dissipate this heat to atmosphere like a surface facility without moving hundreds of cubic metres of air per minute along massivelong vent shafts which, ideally, take the shortest, straightest path to the surface, and are a huge vulnerability to attack like a death star.

    And if you dehumidify the area, which is a must, you generate more heat, AND water, which needs to be pumped to the surface somehow.

    So there is a depth where you reach diminishing returns, sure, the bombs can’t get you, but the heat and moisture will.