Russia and China Target Helium Deposits on the Moon; Russia and China will complete the construction of the nuclear power plant in 2035 and aim to deposit helium on the moon; The construction of the nuclear power plant will be completed in 2035
Published: March 14, 2024 09:46 AM IST
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Russia and China plan to build a joint nuclear power plant on the Moon in 2035. Yuri Borisov, the head of the Russian space agency, made the disclosure in this regard. Borisov also revealed that practical knowledge about the possibility of nuclear energy in space will be shared with China.
NASA has also planned two years ago to build a nuclear power plant on the moon within the next 6 years. The plan is to complete the plant in 2030. For this, NASA has teamed up with the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory.
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NASA and the Idaho National Laboratory have been discussing how to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon, which has different conditions from Earth. NASA has also asked the public to help them if they have ideas for this. NASA is planning a nuclear fission nuclear reactor that runs on enriched uranium fuel.
View from NASA headquarters in Washington DC (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP)
On July 20, 1969, humans set foot on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, followed by 20 other missions. But those trips were technical feats. American attempts to gain the upper hand over their arch-nemesis, the Soviet Union, ended in the 1970s. No other country, other than the United States, has gone to the moon.
But then the space agency and NASA thought about how to make practical use of the moon. The Moon's surface is rich in many metals and rare minerals. Helium 3 deposits to power nuclear fusion reactors are also readily available on the Moon. Lunar mining is an area of great study right now.
A tourist stands next to cardboard images depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the touristic Arbat street in downtown Moscow on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
Along with this, scientists also estimate that the moon will become a staging post for future human journeys to the planets, especially to Mars. In order for all these things to happen, we need energy production on the moon. Nuclear power plant is the first attempt for this. With Russia and China trying to implement the idea, along with NASA, the competition on Earth is spreading to the Moon.
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Russia and China Want to Build a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon
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