Trump Administration Wants Nuclear Plant on Moon by 2030

Trump admin’s NASA: Duffy aims for lunar nuclear base by 2030

NASA has announced plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon by the end of the decade.

Experts say US plans for lunar nuclear reactor are ‘cock-eyed’

Fast-tracking a Nasa plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon may sound dubious. Experts say that’s because it is.

Trump administration wants nuclear plant on moon by 2030

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said the U.S. needs to move fast if it wants a power plant on the moon before China.

NASA’s nuclear gamble on the moon faces growing skepticism

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

NASA Taps Chief for Lunar Fission Power

NASA has chosen Steven Sinacore to lead the small team of NASA engineers standing up the fast-moving commercial program to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon in the next five years, an agency spokesperson told Payload. Sinacore, currently the director of aeronautics at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, was previously the deputy program manager for the power and propulsion element of the agency’s Gateway lunar station. Get moving: Two weeks ago, NASA …

U.S., China race to build first nuclear reactor on moon

China and the US plan lunar nuclear reactors by 2035 and 2030, a move that could shape space law, resource access, and the future of moon bases.