NASA Fast-Tracks 100 kW Lunar Reactor Program With 2030 Launch Target

Nasa is racing to build a nuclear reactor on moon by 2030; here’s the reason

China and Russia aim to build automated nuclear power stations on the moon by 2035.

Why Trump must build a nuclear reactor on the Moon

Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation whom President Trump appointed last month as temporary leader of NASA, has issued a directive to fast-track efforts to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. “To properly advance this critical technology to be able to support a future lunar economy, high power energy generation on Mars, and to strengthen our national security in space,” he says.A small nuclear reactor on the moon is a good idea, but the di…

NASA Aims for U.S. to Be First to Put Nuclear Reactor on the Moon: ‘To Have a Base on the Moon, We Need Energy’

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ when it comes to the ongoing race to the moon and Mars. To do this, Duffy wants the U.S. to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon – a space lawyer explains why, and what the law has to say

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

Why does the US want to put nuclear reactors on the moon?

If you want to know where the next nuclear reactor is being built, you may have to look up at the stars. Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy is moving forward with a plan to construct nuclear reactors on the moon in the hopes of expanding American influence in outer space. But this may be easier said than done, thanks to the government itself, as NASA is facing significant budget cuts courtesy of the Trump administ…