I'm John Bachelorette, and that is the act of Russian Space Web.

RussianSpaceWeb.com, a subscription site, I highly recommend.

It follows Russ Cosmos as it aims for the moon, as the U.S. is aiming for the moon, as

China is aiming for the moon, as other countries are on the moon now, India is on the surface

of the moon with a lander.

The question is, when and if there are human beings on the moon, how will they power their

colony?

How will they power the settlement?

And right now, Russ Cosmos has been working on this problem for some time.

The Kurchatov Institute is imagining a day that will be able to deploy a thermal electric

generator nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon.

And until this is a wonderful project, I imagine it's years in development.

Where is it?

Good evening to you.

Hello, John.

Yes.

So essentially, this is kind of, besides this immediate goals of the Russian Space Program

to build robotic landers, there are scientists and their engineers within the industry, which

are looking really far in the future.

And this part of the project is actually conducted not by Russ Cosmos, which is kind of

equivalent to Russian equivalent of NASA.

It's actually under supervision of Ross Atom, which is another kind of huge state corporation

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