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

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

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially ...

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

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

Although it has long triggered fears of meltdowns and radioactive waste, nuclear power is considered an 'extremely safe,' ...

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

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 ...

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.

Reactor pressure vessels provide a barrier around thousands of uranium fuel rods in temperatures of more than 500 degrees and ...

Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia NASA's Acting Administrator, Sean Duffy, has directed the ...

The Trump administration wants a nuclear reactor on the moon by the end of the decade in a bid to beat Russia and China to ...