{"id":202261,"date":"2025-12-24T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202261\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:12:11","slug":"space-race-intensifies-as-russia-plans-lunar-nuclear-power-plant-by-2036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202261\/","title":{"rendered":"Space race intensifies as Russia plans lunar nuclear power plant by 2036"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1385987_031859_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Space race intensifies as Russia plans lunar nuclear power plant by 2036 \"\/>Space race intensifies as Russia plans lunar nuclear power plant by 2036\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia has recently unveiled an ambitious plan aiming to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon within a decade to expedite its lunar space programme. <\/p>\n<p>According to Roscosmos, Russia\u2019s state space station, the ambitious plan will revolve around building a lunar power plant by 2036 under the aegis of Lavochkin Association aerospace company. <\/p>\n<p>The project would power Russia&#8217;s lunar programme, including rovers and a joint Russian-Chinese lunar research station. The move comes as major global powers are racing to explore the Moon and mark their dominance in a competitive space war. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The project is an important step towards the creation of a permanently functioning scientific lunar station and the transition from one-time missions to a long-term lunar exploration program,&#8221; Roscosmos said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitry Bakanov, the head of Roscosmos, said in June that besides building a nuclear power plant on the Moon, the company also intends to explore the Earth\u2019s sister planet, Venus. <\/p>\n<p>Initially, Russia was considered the leader in space history as Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space in 1961. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in recent years, Russia has struggled to keep up with the United States and China. In August 2023, Russia suffered a massive setback when its unmanned Luna-25 mission crashed into the lunar surface during the landing. <\/p>\n<p>This nuclear project marks a major step in Russia\u2019s goal to become a top space power again.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Space race intensifies as Russia plans lunar nuclear power plant by 2036\u00a0 Russia has recently unveiled an ambitious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-202261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}