The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

Nuclear power in space isn't a new idea. Since the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope generators ...

If you want to know where the next nuclear reactor is being built, you may have to look up at the stars. Transportation ...

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

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 ...

NASA is ready to send nuclear reactors to the Moon. The goal is to have a working reactor by 2030. NASA boss Sean Duffy said ...

NASA's interim leader Sean Duffy recently declared the U.S. space agency aims to place a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 to provide energy for an eventual lunar outpost. Duffy ...

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially ...

But NASA’s space nuclear propulsion office continues to explore the concept—most notably, a joint project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that aims to test a nuclear-powered ...

Planned for 2035, the nuclear reactor would power research and exploration of the moon's south pole as part of the the International Lunar Research Station project.

China aims to have its astronauts on the moon by 2030 to help build the research station. The United States also has plans to build a lunar base with a nuclear power plant. Nasa and the US ...

Most of the terrestrial supply comes from the decay of tritium, which is a byproduct of nuclear reactors and aging nuclear weapons. The United States has been rationing He-3 since 2010.