{"id":67855,"date":"2024-03-05T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/russia-considering-putting-nuclear-power-plant-on-moon-with-china-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:58:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:58:06","slug":"russia-considering-putting-nuclear-power-plant-on-moon-with-china-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/russia-considering-putting-nuclear-power-plant-on-moon-with-china-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia considering putting nuclear power plant on moon with China | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia and China are considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon from 2033-35, Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, something he said could one day allow lunar settlements to be built.<\/p>\n

Borisov, a former deputy defence minister, said that Russia and China had been jointly working on a lunar programme and that Moscow was able to contribute with its expertise on “nuclear space energy”.<\/p>\n

“Today we are seriously considering a project – somewhere at the turn of 2033-2035 – to deliver and install a power unit on the lunar surface together with our Chinese colleagues,” Borisov said.<\/p>\n

Solar panels would not be able to provide enough electricity to power future lunar settlements, he said, while nuclear power could.<\/p>\n

“This is a very serious challenge…it should be done in automatic mode, without the presence of humans,” he said of the possible plan.<\/p>\n

Borisov spoke also of Russian plans to build a nuclear-powered cargo spaceship. He said all the technical questions concerning the project had been solved apart from finding a solution on how to cool the nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n

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“We are indeed working on a space tugboat. This huge, cyclopean structure that would be able, thanks to a nuclear reactor and a high-power turbines…to transport large cargoes from one orbit to another, collect space debris and engage in many other applications,” Borisov said.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have spoken before of ambitious plans to one day mine on the Moon, but the Russian space programme has suffered a series of setbacks in recent years.<\/p>\n

Its first moon mission in 47 years failed last year after Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed.<\/p>\n

Moscow has said it will launch further lunar missions and then explore the possibility of a joint Russian-China crewed mission and even a lunar base.<\/p>\n

China said last month it aimed to put the first Chinese astronaut on the moon before 2030.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin last month dismissed a warning by the United States that Moscow planned to put nuclear weapons in space as false, saying it was a ploy to draw Russia into arms negotiations on the West’s terms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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