According to CoinMeta, Leonid Likhachov, the CEO of Rosatom (Russia's state nuclear energy company), stated on the 10th that the company plans to select a lunar nuclear power plant design by 2027. According to Russian sources, Likhachov said after a government meeting on space development strategy held on the 10th that Rosatom is studying five different lunar nuclear power plant designs and will choose one by 2027. Likhachov mentioned that Rosatom, the Kurchatov Institute, and the Russian Academy of Sciences are jointly working on these projects. "We are talking about lunar nuclear power plants with a capacity of up to 10 kilowatts, which are planned to begin operation in the mid-2030s. Currently, we are conducting in-depth research on five different configurations, ranging from directly converting nuclear energy into electricity to building the corresponding turbine systems. We must select a configuration and start the related work next year," Likhachov said. Mikhail Kovalchuk, the director of the Kurchatov Institute involved in Russia's lunar power project, stated in March of this year that Russia could build a nuclear power plant on the moon within 5 to 7 years.