Moscow: News Agency; While the United States is already nervous about Russia's preparations to build a system that can attack satellites by building a nuclear weapon system in space, now Russia's new sensational plan has come to light. Russia and China are going to start a nuclear power plant on the moon together. Russia is also preparing to build a nuclear cargo spacecraft.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos has taken the initiative for this. Notably, Russia denied US accusations of anti-satellite nuclear missiles; But the official information about the nuclear power plant on the moon has been given by Russia itself.
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Russia and China are jointly working on this program on the moon, it has been explained by Russia. Russia's and China's joint nuclear power plant on the moon will be operational from 2033-35, said Yuri Borisov, head of the Roscosmos space agency and former Russian deputy defense minister. If not, one day there will be human colonies on the moon. This project will be a key issue for that.
Solar panels will be ineffective in providing sufficient power for future lunar colonies. He also said that nuclear power would be the right option for human settlements on the moon.
Will also mine the moon
Russia will also mine the moon in search of valuable metals. When India's lunar rover landed on the South Pole of the Moon for the first time in the history of the world, Russia had launched a rover hoping to reach it first; But it collapsed, it is remarkable here!
What else did Borisov say?
Russia to build nuclear-powered cargo spaceship All technical issues including how to cool the reactor have been solved. The turbines will be of high power. The project will be useful in transporting cargo from one orbit to another, collecting space debris.