The United States is no longer talking abstractly about nuclear power in space. It is now working to place a working fission ...
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have reignited efforts to develop a small nuclear reactor for deployment on the ...
NASA and DOE aim to deploy nuclear reactors on the Moon and in orbit, and that also includes the development of a lunar ...
Last year, Sean Duffy, who served as the acting administrator of NASA from July to December 2025, had announced NASA’s the ...
While nuclear reactors have been around on Earth for over 70 years, placing them on the moon would be unprecedented. NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, is aiming to do the undone: a reactor ...