Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China

In the backdrop of comments denying the plan to put nuclear weapons in space, Russian officials are now considering placing a nuclear power plant on the moon in cooperation with China.

A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying Russian the Meteor-M spacecraft and 18 Russian and foreign additional small satellites, blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, February 29, 2024.

(photo credit: Andrey Shelepin/GCTC/Russian space agency Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS)

ByREUTERS

MARCH 5, 2024 16:25