A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor for the moon has is aggressive but achievable, industry ...

Facing a new space race with China and Russia, NASA is fast-tracking lunar nuclear power development and commercial space ...

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

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

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 ...

NASA is accelerating its plans to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon by the end of the decade to power lunar bases and gain an advantage in the new space race against Russia and China.

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

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