Creation of NPP for Moon may be completed in 2030-2032 - Roscosmos general director

MOSCOW. July 28 (Interfax) - A nuclear power plant that is needed for lunar expeditions may appear in 2030-2032, Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Bakakov said.

"The horizon is 2030-2032," Bakanov said on RBC TV on Monday.

"It is important to practice everything on Earth so that there is no risk in space," he said.

"The nuclear power plant that can be landed on the Moon will give power to those infrastructure models that can work independently, and wait for human arrival," Bakanov said.

The work in this direction is being conducted under the federal project Space Atom jointly by Roscosmos, the Kurchatov Institute and Rosatom, he said.