José Maza Says the Installation of a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Is “Almost Essential”

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José Maza, astronomer, referred CNN Time to the installation of a nuclear power plant on the Moon and the space race to reach Mars. For the National Science Award it is “almost essential” to install the nuclear power plant, due to the conditions of the Earth’s satellite. “I think it is inevitable that they have a nuclear generator, because it is the only one that would work,” he says. Maza emphasizes that unlike Mars, where wind generators would…