The Moon Economic Wars: Russia and China Plan a Nuclear Plant to Power Future Lunar Base
Space, the final frontier… for economic competition.
In plans that are not so dissimilar from NASA’s own publicized plans, Russia and China are now reportedly considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon.
And not in some hypothetical future, either, but in a decade.
Yuri Borisov, head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos is out in the public eye, stating that this may happen from 2033 to 2035.
Roscosmos isn’t on its best moment, after Luna-25, first moon mission in 47 years, spun out of control and crashed in the moon surface – but the Indian Space Agency had the very same problem, and two years later it successfully landed their first spacecraft.
