China would be meditating on a nuclear plant on the Moon to feed the International Lunar Research Station that plans to build next to Russia, according to a senior official this Wednesday and has collected the agency Reuters. Another objective of Russian researchers will be Find mineral and water resources, in addition to collecting lunar materials to use it as fuel.
It should be noted that the country led by Xi Jinping aims to become a Nuclear power for 2030 And for this he plans some missions, such as the Chang’e-8 that will be held in 2028 and would lay the foundations for the construction of a lunar base.
The chief engineer of this mission, Pei Zhaoyu, said that so that there may be energy supply of the lunar base, some large -scale solar panels could be lifted and built pipes and cables to allow heating and electricity.
It should be noted that the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos last year raised the construction of a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon in collaboration with the National Management Administration of China (CNSA) for 2035 to feed the Ilrs. Later, the inclusion of the nuclear energy unit in the presentation of a Chinese official lifted the suspicions that Beijing could support the idea.
“An important issue for the Ilrs is the supply of energy, and in this Russia has a natural advantage, when it comes to nuclear energy plants, especially sending them to space, leads the world, it is ahead of the United States,” said Reuters Wu Weiren, chief designer of the China Lunar Exploration Program.
This program has transcended just at a time when NASA’s Artemis had announced that it was as a goal to take American astronauts to the moon again in 2025. In addition, as Reuters stood out, China plans to create the ‘Project 555’ to which 50 countries, 500 international institutions of scientific research and 5,000 foreign researchers will be invited.
