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Moonbase Milestone: Nuclear Reactor Project Confirmed, Sparking Shock Across U.S.
The “US is in total shock” over the verified plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
You read correctly: where else should it go if you don’t want a local eyesore to be constructed in your neighbourhood? The Moon, that’s right.
Furthermore, although it may sound like something from a sci-fi film set in the future, it is actually quite genuine. China is currently working on building a nuclear power plant on the moon.
It is envisaged that this will help the nation create a more permanent research station with Russia.
The International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) was unveiled at a presentation for international governments and organisations in Shanghai.
There, Pei Zhaoyu, the mission’s chief engineer, demonstrated how the Moon’s energy supply might also rely on massive solar arrays as well as cables and pipelines installed on the lunar surface for electricity and warmth.
Given that China plans to send its own astronauts to the moon within the next five years, it is envisaged that this plant will be built by 2035.
China will now go out against the United States, which also intends to return humans to the moon within the next two years.
Nearly seven decades later, who would have imagined that the space race to the lunar surface would be happening again?
Russian space agency Roscosmos supported the (somewhat odd-sounding) plan to put the nuclear plant on the moon last year when it said that it will work with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to construct a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface by 2035 in order to power the ILRS.
Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration program, said to Reuters at the conference: “An important question for the ILRS is power supply, and in this Russia has a natural advantage, when it comes to nuclear power plants, especially sending them into space, it leads the world, it is ahead of the United States,” Wu added that they hope “both countries can send a nuclear reactor to the Moon.”
The Russian partners of Beijing are developing a nuclear-powered cargo spacecraft known as a “space tugboat.”
Yury Borisov, former head of Roscosmos, said in 2024: “This huge, cyclopean structure would be able, thanks to a nuclear reactor and high-power turbines, to transport large cargo from one orbit to another, collect space debris and engage in many other applications.”
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