In their report, Lal and Myers estimate it would cost about $800 million annually for five years to build and deploy a ...

Recently, acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reportedly suggested a U.S. reactor would be operational on the moon by 2030.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ ...

The high ground has always held strategic and tactical importance—from mountaintops in ancient battles to the orbital vantage ...

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...

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

NASA is seeking feedback from the space industry for a fission surface power system that can generate 100 kilowatts of ...

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

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

Signed by the current Acting Administrator Sean Duffy, NASA Headquarters released a plan that calls for creating a new position, the Fission Surface Power Program Executive, who would oversee this ...

Nuclear power on the moon is critical to the United States' space exploration and national security goals, acting NASA ...

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