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Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

In their report, Lal and Myers estimate it would cost about $800 million annually for five years to build and deploy a ...
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NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon — a space lawyer explains why, and what the law has to say

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

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’ ...

NASA Should Focus on Nuclear Electric Propulsion

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

NASA to build nuclear reactor on the Moon – a space lawyer explains what the law has to say | The Conversation

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

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Here’s what the law has to say

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

NASA’s nuclear gamble on the moon faces growing skepticism

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 repo ...

US vs China: NASA plans to build nuclear reactor on Moon. What it means? All we know so far

The US is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the ...
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Trump picks Sean Duffy as interim NASA administrator

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been tapped as NASA's new interim administrator by President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 10, 2025. (File photo) ...