New Space Race: The US, China and Russia compete to be the first person to build a nuclear reactor once a month

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union tried to prove their superiority by hurry to be the first nation to put a man in the moon.

Although the United States claimed a certain prize in 1969, a new and more dramatic space race is just beginning.

This week, NASA’s new president Sean Duffy was prepared to establish an American nuclear reactor before 2030.

In a directive, firstly reported PolicyMr. Duffy claims that it will allow it to declare a ‘holding zone’ on the moon surface of the US.

This is seen as a necessary step to protect the landing area for a future American Moon base planned as a part of the Artemis program.

However, the United States is far from being the only country to determine the views of our moon satellite.

In May, China and Russia signed a cooperation memorandum to build their own nuclear reactors per month.

However, with Russia and China targeting 2036 as a date of completion, the three superpowers are now locked in a head -to -head race to reach there.

New NASA manager Sean Duffy’s (in the picture) The first project will be an attempt to take American energy dominance to the Moon

This comes with the rapid and unexpected change in the US to give priority to human discovery in space.

Although NASA has had the smallest budget for NASA since 1961, the agency has allocated more than $ 7 billion for the Moon discovery.

The Artemis program, which was once afraid to be a target for Donald Trump’s interruptions, is now planned to return the presence of a human being until 2027.

In the directive, Mr. Duffy called on NASA to ‘quickly move’ to establish a nuclear reactor once a month to ‘support a future economy’.

Mr. Duffy, who is also the US transport secretary, asked NASA to place a reactor who can produce at least 100 kilowatts per month at the end of ten years.

This is enough energy to provide power to an average of 80 American households and can provide an energy backbone for a permanent moon base.

NASA had previously planned to place a 40 kilowatt reactor in a similar time period, but it is not clear whether they can use the same designs.

Mr. Duffy will give NASA 30 days to assign an official to supervise the operation and 60 days to make a request from commercial companies for the project.

In accordance with Donald Trump, the space program of America has cut scientific goals and focused on dominating us in the month

Nuclear energy is seen as a key to form a lunar presence, because it is immersed in full, freezing darkness for two weeks each month.

In the South Pole, in which NASA plans to establish operations, the sun never rises above the horizon, and some craters are covered in the permanent darkness.

This makes it almost impossible for the spacecraft or bases to survive per month using only solar and batteries.

However, this sudden release, which returns to Lunar Discovery, can be a product of increasing competition from other superpowers.

Saying, Mr. Duffy warned that ‘the first country doing this can declare a holding zone that will significantly prevents the existence of an Artemis that was planned, even if not first’.

This is almost definitely a reference to Russia and China’s plans to build a nuclear reactor once a month announced in May.

This reactor will be used to give power to the International Moon Research Station (IRS), which must be completed by 2036 according to the latest plans.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a statement at the time: ‘The station will conduct basic space research and test technology for non -long -term operations of IRRs with the possibility of a person’s presence in the month.’

This comes after planning to build a nuclear power plant once a month to support a joint research station due to the completion of Russia and China in 2036 (stock image)

ILRs will be a permanent base of the south pole of the month, including the work of 17 countries, including Egypt, Pakistan, Venezuela, Thailand and South Africa.

Temel will be appointed by the upcoming Chang-8 mission, which will be the human bear descent of China’s first attempt.

This means that the moon and especially the South Pole have now become the target of a new international space race.

A Security Studies Specialist from King’s College London. Mark Hilborne told Daily Mail: ‘The moon is a place where nations will have competitive interests. The moon will have more valuable parts than others and therefore may have certain points of competition.

‘Moon is valuable as a low -established staging base in which future space developments can be built. Mine materials on -site will be valuable in creating elements that will create more moon discovery.

‘If they could be built on the moon instead of sending from Earth, the cost would be much cheaper.’

The biggest concern for the US and probably Russia and China is that everything that was first built on the Moon can effectively claim it as its own region.

The relations of countries in space are first ruled by a number of rules called the external space treaty signed in 1967.

NASA aims to establish a month base by 2030 as part of the Artemis program. Experts, America’s ‘holding zones’ attitude China, Russia and the USA

Signing the Treaty acknowledges that the area is not subject to national allowance with the claim of sovereignty, usage or profession or any other way.

This clearly means that nations can legally make regional claims about celestial bodies such as the Moon.

But in practice, The United States recently signed a series of rules called Artemis agreements in 2020, doubled a much more ambitious version of the law.

Critically, Artemis agreements also give states ‘security zones’ application power – special areas where other states cannot enter or use without permission from the owner.

While the United States insists that these borders will end when the ‘relevant operation stops’, for a permanent colony, it will function as the boundaries of a almost dominant region.

These rules essentially constitute a principle who reaches a part of the month.

Dr Jill Stuart, a space law expert from the London School of Economics, told Daily Mail: ‘Countries can use a portion of the moon surface for a scientific basis without demanding long -term property, but they must communicate with other users and be transparent about their purpose.

‘Although this seems potentially a “fair” way to allow future activities per month, it also creates the “first move advantage” because it has the right to demand a security zone around those who can build bases.

This graph shows possible sites for mining in the South Pole of the Moon. Water places are shown in blue, while the key places for helium and rare soil metals are numbered. Both China and the United States are trying to descend to this region, so conflicts on resources are possible

Since China has rapid progress in the space flight program that has reached the moon, this idea can now be worrying for America.

Although these security zones are required for a nuclear reactor, experts say it can lead to an increasingly risky space race.

He is a space law expert from the University of Northumbria. Fabio Tronchetti told Daily Mail: ‘It is clear that we are moving towards a space in a space.

‘The United States is trying to move fast and reach the moon at least before China and Russia in order to unilaterally demand the right to determine the rules of the game.’

This has no legal need to respect China and Russia, who have not signed Artemis agreements, to respect the US ‘holding regions’.

Dr Tronchetti says that international law does not ‘recognize the possibility of the US claims’ and added that the US is trying to push it. [China’s] Hand to determine the rules appropriate to their own interests.

How this conflict can play on the surface of the moon continues, but in the future, we can see that the conflicts on earth come into space.

Who went to the Moon?

A total of 12 people walked a month.

1 + 2. Apollo 11 – 21 July 1969

Neil Armstrong wrote history as the first person to set foot on the surface of the moon before the crew Edwin ‘Buzz’ aldrin was watched.

3 + 4. Apollo 12 – 19 and 20 November 1969

Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were Moon Walkers in Apollo 12.

Apollo 12 crew members experienced two lightning strikes immediately after Saturn V rockets were started.

5 + 6. Apollo 14 – 5 February 1971

Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell were part of the Apollo 14 mission. They were released on January 31, 1971 and landed in the Fra Mauro region of Ay, the original target for Apollo 13.

7 + 8. Apollo 15 – 31 July 1971

Dave Scott and James Irwin landed and stayed for three days until August 2.

9 + 10. APOLLO 16 – 21 April 1972

John Young and Charlie Duke were the next man walking in the month. When the crew reached the moon orbit, the task had to be almost canceled due to a problem with the main engine of the command and service module.

11 + 12. APOLLO 17 – 11 December 1972

The last people to walk on the Moon were Eugene (Gene) Cernan and Harrison (Jack) Schmitt.

Before leaving the Moon, Cernan drew his daughter Tracy’s initials to the Ay Regolith. Since the moon does not experience weather conditions such as wind or rain to erode anything, the initials should remain there for a very long time.

All men on the moon