Roscosmos has begun unifying the platform and assembling parts for the lunar nuclear power plant.

Roscosmos has begun assembling the components, unifying the heavy landing platform and creating a charging and distribution station for the Lunar nuclear power plant (NPP). This was announced on November 12 by the head of the state corporation Dmitry Bakanov.

"The main task is to find and build sources of safe and affordable energy in space <... > For this, it is planned to build a lunar nuclear power plant," the head of the state corporation said at a meeting with the heads of diplomatic missions.

According to him, the work also covers the lunar rover. Together with the Kurchatov Institute, specialists are engaged in modeling the resource of thermal emission converters and an experimental base.

In addition, Bakanov recalled that lunar day and night last for about 14 days on earth. During the shading period, solar panels are ineffective due to the lack of sunlight, so it is assumed that nuclear energy will solve the problem of energy supply.

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In October, Bakanov said that Russia has the launch vehicles necessary to deliver the infrastructure of a future nuclear power plant to the Moon. He clarified that the necessary launch facilities already exist, so the creation of a power plant for a future lunar station remains a separate task.