The Next Web writes that the aerospace expert believes micro-nuclear reactors will offer the energy output astronauts will need when they'll land on the moon, as there are no resources that we can make use of and the sun is hiding for two weeks at a time.

Officials at the UK Space Agency share the same vision, as they provided Rolls-Royce with 2.9 million GBP to carry on studies regarding the technology. The first test nuclear reactor produced by Rolls-Royce could land on the moon as soon as 2029.

UK Space Agency experts say that "all space missions depend on a power source, to support systems for communications, life-support and science experiments."

Nuclear reactors, they explain, could provide "continuous power regardless of location, available sunlight, and other environmental conditions."

Last year in April, we wrote about Rolls-Royce's efforts to make small nuclear reactors a reality and the fact that company experts believe that these will be ready by mid-2024 and will start powering the grid in 2029.

Each 470 megawatt SMR unit would cost around 2.3 billion dollars to produce and will be built on around 4 hectares of land and the company hopes to build ten of those by 2035.