Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is also the interim head of NASA, announced expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon as part of a new space race. Derrick Pitts, chief ...

(The Conversation) – The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it ...

TL;DR: NASA is accelerating plans to develop a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor for the Moon by 2030, aiming to provide sustainable, round-the-clock power for its Artemis lunar base. This move intensifies ...

NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as power necessary to extract and refine lunar resources.

Why NASA administrator Sean Duffy’s atomic directives are not that outlandish. This week NASA administrator Sean Duffy declared the Trump Administration's intention to land a working nuclear fission ...