China and Russia want to put nuclear power units on the moon | Tech News [Video]

China and Russia want to install a nuclear power unit on the moon – despite no humans visiting it for more than five decades.

Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, said its stable power could help maintain lunar settlements because solar panels would not be enough.

In 2021, Beijing and Moscow announced plans to build a permanently manned research station on the moon’s south pole, with work to begin to establish a basic outpost in the next few years, known as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). 

This is despite the last time a human was on the Moon was in 1972.

Completion of the outpost is predicted to be in the 2030s.

This is when Chinese and Russian space agencies are considering installing the power unit together. 

‘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 …