Jesus fuck, Russia can barely build a coal-fired plant in Moscow these days. They're barely holding their own against a country they invaded that had virtually no preparation for being invaded because they thought a treaty protected them, so a bunch of farmers and housewives took up arms.

Good fucking luck, Vlad. Russia is a country of drunks and weaklings that can't tie their own shoes and has been embarassed on the international stage since the 19th century. You're a joke country that happens to have nuclear weapons, it's like an autistic child with a molotov cocktail.

Translation: russian government is out of ideas on how to embezzle even more budget money.

There's only two sources of power on other planets/outer space, and that is nuclear and solar.

Wind and water and biomass and geothermal and fossil fuels are out of the question, because of lack of said things or lack of oxygen to burn anything.

That being said, "nuclear" only works if it's steady-state and does not use water/air input. That excludes steam engines and such, and basically only leaves RTGs (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator).

These are solid-state devices (meaning they have no moving parts) and convert the heat directly into electricity using TEGs (Thermoelectric Generator). They don't need water or air input.

RTGs have an overall fuel efficiency of around 3-5%, meaning they translate around 3-5% of the radioactive decay heat of the nuclear material into electric power output.

Sure, and I plan to win the lottery.

Ok

Suuure russia. Ofc you are still a big mighty strong power that can beat up anyone especially all of NATO at once. Now here is cookie

Lol it often takes longer than a decade to build one on earth

No they don't

That's right, my friends. Tonight, we are going to Chernobyl..

This is a fucking joke. I wish media wouldn't take it seriously.

I recently read this about their "new" spacestation:

The latest concept for the ROS reflects Roscosmos' changing situation in recent years, owing to sanctions and the termination of international cooperation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to Orlov's announcement, Russia will separate its modules from the ISS once the program is completed in 2030, forming the core of the ROS, with other modules to follow.

In other words, they're just decoupling & rearranging the modules & renaming the result.

Feel free to extrapolate from that how realistic a Russian nuclear plant on the moon is.

To power what?

They also planned to take Ukraine. See how well their plans work out for them?

They also planned to overrun Ukraine in three days.

Given the usual level of Russian corruption, they will notice when they want to draw power from that reactor that someone had already sold off the nuclear fuel and replaced the rods on the reactor with lead.

Clickbait headline.

If they make some kind of Moon base with China, of course they’re going to put an RTG or something there; that’d make a lot of sense.

Also, even the legacy of the Soviet space program is no joke. There’s a reason Soyuz delivered astronauts around the world (including US ones) to space forever… that being said, China would definitely be the leading partner here.

Because Russian time estimates have been so very reliable the last few years

They can't even handle the nuclear power plant on the territory they occupied

Hey at least if they screw this one up it (probably) wont irradiate half the planet.

The only thing that has worse cooling problems than data centers in space, is a nuclear power plant in space

We know how new year's resolutions usually turn out

Oh yes, moon nazis intensifies.

"Good news, Comrade! Putin need you for high paying job at nuclear plant! Bad news, you will relocate, and is permanently!"