Russia wants to deploy the first nuclear power plant on the Moon

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12:23; 13 June 2025 year
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gt;Russia plans to deliver a low-power nuclear power plant to the Moon to provide energy to the space station on the moon. The moon will be the starting point for further progress in space exploration, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said in an interview.https://ria.ru/20250613/luna-2022612410.html?in=l"&RIA Novosti/a/gt;.

According to him, the work is planned with the joint participation of the Chinese.

"First, we need to work out all the technologies on the Moon, and then move on to other planets. When developing technologies on the Moon, in particular, with our Chinese partners, it is necessary to provide the station with energy. We are talking about delivering our low-power nuclear power plant to the moon. It will generate electricity to ensure the life of the station, which will operate directly on the Moon and, as I said, to develop technologies that will later be used for deep space exploration," RIA Novosti quoted Manturov as saying.

According to preliminary plans, the international lunar research station should be established by 2035, and the nuclear power plant itself is scheduled to be delivered by 2023.

The day before, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, in his address on Russia Day, spoke about the deployment of the first nuclear power plant on the Moon.

The objectives include the creation of a new Russian orbital station to replace the ISS and the deployment of the first nuclear power plant on the Moon, the foundation for future lunar bases. We will explore Venus. We are the only country that has landed a device on it.

"p>gt;There are ambitious goals ahead.We will have to implement projects that require courage, scale of thought and engineering genius, Bakanov said.