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

Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The reactor directive orders NASA to solicit proposals from commercial complanies for a 100 kilowatt nuclear reactor to ...

NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as power necessary to extract and refine lunar resources.

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

The facility, called Aalo-X, is being built next to the Idaho National Laboratory’s Materials and Fuels Complex in Idaho ...

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

How would a nuclear reactor on the moon work? A reactor on the moon would not operate in quite the same way as one on Earth. For one, it has to be small enough and light enough to fit inside a rocket.

Idaho National Lab officials met with Texas-based Aalo Atomics on Thursday for the groundbreaking of Aalo-X, the nation's first experimental extra modular nuclear reactor.

The step is aimed at supporting the testing of two advanced reactor designs and jumpstart a new domestic advanced fuel line ...

More than 60 years after first demos of this tech, Kairos will bring it back to Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could be home ...

Is NASA going to put a nuclear reactor on the moon? Here's what Sean Duffy said about U.S. race against China in space and going to Mars.