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Inside NASA's fast-track plans for lunar nuclear power and new space stations to outpace global rivals

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

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

"Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon" is not a headline I imagined reading before last week. Sure, as a sci-fi ...
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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 ...
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Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

You have until Thursday August 21 to respond if you do NASA's plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon have moved on – the ...
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NASA fast-tracks lunar reactor plan

NASA is expediting plans to deploy a 100kW nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, aiming to power future lunar bases and ...

NASA calls for nuclear power plant on the moon in next decade. Here's what we know.

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 ...

NASA Boosts Plans for Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

NASA could soon go nuclear on the moon. The space agency’s acting administrator Sean Duffy has issued a directive to expedite ...

NASA wants US to be the first nation to put nuclear reactor on the moon

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space.
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Sean Duffy accelerates plan for lunar nuclear reactor

NASA is fast-tracking plans to deploy a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by 2030 as a strategic imperative to prevent ...

Nasa to put nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media

US space agency Nasa will fast-track plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, according to US media. It is part ...
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NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means

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