“We plan to build a nuclear power plant on the lunar surface between 2032 and 2035.”
“Production of electricity needed for lunar settlement…lack of solar thermal theory”
Russia announced on the 5th (local time) that it is considering building a nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant) on the moon together with China in 10 years.
According to RT, Yuri Borisov, President of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), said at the World Youth Festival (WYF) in Sirius near Sochi that day, “We, together with our Chinese colleagues, will build a power plant on the lunar surface between 2033 and 2035.” “We are seriously considering the project to build,” he said.
He argued, “Nuclear power could be a solution to supplying the energy needed for lunar settlement,” and added, “Solar panels will not be enough to produce enough electricity.”
He added that robotics will be used to install nuclear power plants.
“This is a very serious challenge,” Borissov said, emphasizing that “it must proceed in an automatic mode without human intervention.”
He pointed out that technologically, the method of cooling the nuclear reactor must be solved first. “We are developing a space tug,” he said. “With nuclear reactors and high-power turbines, it will be a massive structure that can transport large cargo from one orbit to another, collect space debris, and have many other uses,” he said.
RT pointed out that the issue of installing a nuclear reactor on the moon is evaluated as a modern-day space race between the United States and its allies, and China and Russia.
Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, said, “China is developing space-based military capabilities at an alarming rate,” and China’s Ministry of Defense said, “The United States is leading a dangerous move to militarize space.”
Mike Turner, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, claimed last month that Russia is trying to deploy missile interceptors carrying nuclear warheads in space to strengthen its anti-satellite capabilities. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded that the United States was making false claims to use it as leverage in negotiations to limit space-based weapons.
Borissov insisted that “Russia has no plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space.”
Source: Donga
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