Translation: russian government is out of ideas on how to embezzle even more budget money.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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Sees article about a new and innovative embezzlement method. Concludes that they're out of ideas.
Lol it often takes longer than a decade to build one on earth
But then you build a much bigger one on earth. New nuclear power plants are often designed to generate over 1000 MW, NASA has designed small modular nuclear plants to deploy at space bases that generate 10 KW, a completely different scale.
That's right, my friends. Tonight, we are going to Chernobyl..
And if ta rocket explodes carrying erniched uranium...
If the rocket is high enough it's not their problem. If it's low enough, they don't care about Kazakhstan
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.
They can't even handle the nuclear power plant on the territory they occupied
You don't understand, the moon needs to be liberated from lunar nazis.
Iron Sky intensifies
To power what?
Space lasers!!
The moon
The dark side of
Well, you can't put permanent infrastructure on the moon without a plan to power it. So, a power plant has to be the first step, that's why NASA has the kilopower program, even though we don't have a permanent moon base yet.
The sun, right over there: "um, hello?"
Now I might be talking shit, but isn't there a problem with dust on the moon that means solar panels wouldn't work very well? Though I may be thinking of Mars. Or something else. Uranus?
Well the sun works great for orbit around the moon, but on the surface a day/night cycle lasts a month. So that's about 15 days of night at a time.
Obviously there's no wind on the moon and burning things makes no sense. So literally the only options left are nuclear or lots and lots of batteries.
They also planned to take Ukraine. See how well their plans work out for them?
Sure, and I plan to win the lottery.
Russia's got more of a space program than the US at this point. And they've continued to build and modernize their nuclear infrastructure, with the youngest plant coming online as recently as 2020 and seven in the pipe.
They're two industries the country has keep in relative working order while the rest of the economy was scrapped for parts back in the '90s/'00s.
Insane to think they are in a position to colonize the moon when they're quagmired in Ukraine and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of young men to keep at it. But they have the kit to try in a way no other county - except maybe China or India - could hope to.
The next day: "well ho-ly shit..."
The only thing that has worse cooling problems than data centers in space, is a nuclear power plant in space
Also, nuclear power plants are steam powered. Good luck. They /might/ drop a nuclear battery, like the kind in some old satellites or apace probes, on the moon, generating a couple hundred watts with 1970s technology.
I guess they might have old soviet stockpiles, so it'd be just the matter of dropping one on the moon. Then, maybe they could blackmail the americans to send it there.
So... The US has plans to build nuclear generators on the moon too, kilopower has been an ongoing project for the past decade and I have no doubt we'll be ready to deploy one of these reactors as soon as we start building infrastructure on the moon again in the near future.
Nuclear power is not new for space, it's an obvious choice, one of only two choices in fact. And for what it's worth, Russia/USSR has had far more nuclear powered space probes over the years than the US has, so this isn't exactly new for them either.
As for cooling, yeah, if you generate power you need to dissipate that heat. Your generator will put out heat which needs to be dealt with and then using that electricity will also generate heat which needs to be dissipated. That said, one kind of power is not harder than another, dissipating a megawatt of solar power is just as complicated as a megawatt of nuclear. So the real question is: how much power do you need? The complexity of the project will scale relative to that.
All in all, we've used nuclear power in space before and we will need to do it again, radiators are not all that hard.
On the moon isn't really "in space" in terms of temperature distribution because the heat actually has somewhere to go, the moon.
Would only be cool enough at night though.
It, like the moon, will be made of cheese.
Are there nuclear power plants that don’t use water now?
They used to do this shit all the time to trick America into wasting time and resources trying to keep up with them
As often as not they were chasing Americans' empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).
The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station... all launched in response to American campaigns.
But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.
"Good news, Comrade! Putin need you for high paying job at nuclear plant! Bad news, you will relocate, and is permanently!"
I'd rather be stuck on the moon than deal with the bullshit down here
Everyday its getting harder and harder to believe I'm not just a sim in a game.
waves at the sky while thinking about how hungry I am
Oh yes, moon nazis intensifies.
shit I'm more likely to put a nuclear power plant on the moon guarded by state of the art Mobile Suits piloted by Jedi Knights than Russia is.
We know how new year's resolutions usually turn out
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
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.
Ah, so I have a joke about Soviet corruption that applies to modern Russia too
A brand new apartment building in Moscow collapses. Investigators are sent to interrogate the suspects.
First they ask the sand. The sand defends itself: "How could you even suspect me? I'm so white, pure of heart!"
Second they ask a brick. The brick replies: "Look at me, so red. An exemplary communist, how could you suspect me?"
Last, they ask the cement. The cement goes: "Why are you blaming me? I wasn't even there!"
Is this before or after they conquer all of Europe?
We'll see how much of Russia still exists in its present form in a decade.