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2026-04-07 11:17:33
[Russia plans to complete lunar nuclear power module prototype by 2032, nuclear power plant based on direct energy conversion principle] (1) Kovalchuk, director of the Kurchatov Institute of Russia, said on April 6 that the prototype of a 5-kilowatt, 1,300-kilogram nuclear power module for the lunar station should be completed by 2032. (2) Adamov, former Russian Minister of Atomic Energy and scientific director of the Nikit Institute under the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, said that the Serena unattended self-regulating nuclear power plant for the lunar base will operate based on the direct energy conversion principle. (3) In 2025, Glazkov, deputy general manager of Roscosmos, said that the first nuclear power device planned to be sent to the moon before 2036 will have an output power of 5 kilowatts.
