Having a nuclear power plant (“nuclear” engine), the Zeus space tug will not be a weapon against satellites and will not be a nuclear weapon. In this respect RIA News said Nathan Eismont, a leading researcher at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“This is not relevant. A nuclear tug is a normal reactor, not very large, of which there are many on Earth, and used to produce electrical energy, and it is the same there (in space). “It has nothing to do with nuclear weapons,” Eismont said.
With these words, Eismont refuted rumors that “Russia’s deployment of nuclear weapons into space” may be linked to the Zeus tugboat.
Previously United States President Joe Biden statedHe said that the United States had received information about the Russian Federation’s technical capabilities to deploy anti-satellite weapons in space, but did not intend to do so.
Formerly in the Federation Council named The “bogeyman” of the US announcement about Russian nuclear weapons in space.