A nuclear reactor on the moon, installed by Russian and Chinese robots.
The new frontier of "borderless collaboration" that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have promised has as its goal a plan that has nothing on science fiction. "We are seriously thinking about the project" and could implement it by 2035, revealed Yuri Borisov, the director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
What would be the use of putting a nuclear reactor on the moon?
Borisov explained that the solar panels would not be able to provide enough energy to allow men (and women) to colonize the satellite living and working on permanent bases. Only nuclear power could guarantee a stable energy supply.
Among Moscow's plans is the construction of a nuclear-powered spacecraft: "We are working on a tug, something big, cyclopean, which thanks to nuclear propulsion would have the power to carry large loads from one orbit to another, could collect space debris and could operate in a variety of activities". For now, there remains one notable problem, Director Borisov admitted: Russian scientists have not yet been able to solve the problem of cooling the reactor.
