Recent reports have shown that the US Space Agency NASA plans to install an atomic reactor on the moon.
Secretary Transport Sean Dafi, who served as NASA’s interim chief, has instructed the space agency to “move forward” to achieve this technique.
According to the New York Times, he said in a message to the employees, “It is important to support the future economy on the moon, generate energy on Mars and strengthen national security in space, so it is important to carry forward this important technique, so the agency should move forward.”
The project was first reported by the American Journal ‘Politico’.
Sean Dafi warned that China and Russia intended to install their atomic reactors on the moon by the mid -2030s and establish a joint base there.
If they were able to do so, they could obstruct the United States to react to the United States by announcing the ‘shell-out zone’ to enter the moon.
Instructions said that in the next one month, NASA should appoint a qualified officer who oversees the project and in this regard, private commercial companies have been given time to submit their suggestions.
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According to the US plan, the atomic reactor should be ready to launch by 2029 and have the power to provide electricity to 80 houses.
Last year, NASA announced that it has progressed in its ‘Disposition Surface Power Project’, aimed at developing an ideological design that can practically be tried on the moon and who also helps Mars for future missions.
NASA also said that this technique can be very beneficial on the moon during night as the night on the moon is very cold and dark and lasts for more than two weeks, which can be technically challenged.
Now NASA is focusing less on machines or scientific experiments and sending humans into space. This new instruction does not specify whether the atomic reactor will be sent to the moon with a space mission or it will provide energy to operation.