Putin is boosting the mood again amid concerns about Russia’s use of nuclear weapons as he said today that building a nuclear power plant in space is a priority, according to CNN.

In particular, the Russian president said on Thursday that space projects, including the installation of a nuclear power plant in space, should be a priority and receive adequate funding, according to the state-run TASS news agency.

Russia “has sufficient capabilities and, moreover, it still has such reserves that we can be proud of and rely on in the future,” Putin said during a meeting with government members, citing the example of a nuclear power plant that would operate in space.

“We need to finance this project in time,” Putin said, according to TASS. “We just have to set priorities,” he said, adding that “there are issues that require additional attention.”

“We are used to the fact that we have capabilities that other countries do not have, but we must pay special attention to them so that they are developed and used in the future to solve tasks that can and should be solved with the help of these technologies,” Putin said .

The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said last week that Russia and China are working on a project to install a nuclear reactor on the Moon, according to TASS.

“Today, we are seriously considering a project to transport and install a power reactor on the moon jointly with our Chinese partners sometime between 2033 and 2035,” he said in remarks at a youth festival on March 5.

In March 2021, Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos and China’s National Space Administration signed a memorandum of cooperation to establish an International Lunar Research Station, according to TASS.

The news comes after sources told CNN last month that Russia is trying to develop a nuclear space weapon that could potentially destroy a vast array of commercial and government satellites.

The weapon is still under development in Russia and not yet in orbit, Biden administration officials have said publicly. But if used, officials say, it would mark the beginning of a dangerous era in the history of nuclear weapons and could cause extreme disruption to daily life in ways that are hard to predict.