Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical ...

The Golden Chest Mine in the far northern reaches of Idaho seems an unlikely staging ground for clean power innovation. It is ...

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

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The Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly ...

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

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support its planned international lunar research station. The United States ...

Duffy went further than simply saying he wants the United States to beat China to the moon, however. The acting NASA chief ...

NASA is preparing to beat Russia and China in constructing the first lunar base powered by a custom-built nuclear reactor ...

Powering the Moon Interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy announced that President Trump wants to place a small modular reactor ...

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 ...