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It's a 21st-century 'space race.' The Trump administration has announced plans to send a nuclear reactor to the moon. Now, ...
A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...
The Trump administration is rolling out plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. But that begs the question, who owns the ...
Under Trump, NASA is accelerating a push to put a reactor on the moon, ahead of China and Russia. The plan could involve a “keep-out zone” on the lunar surface.
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.
This is about space exploration. This is about this next phase,” Duffy, interim NASA administrator and ‘The Real World’ alum, ...
The rivalry of the superpowers in space is entering a new phase, in which energy independence beyond Earth plays a key role.
Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in Fukui prefecture, western Japan, to replace the existing facility, the ...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed a study of new accident tolerant fuels being developed by three companies for new commercial nuclear power reactors.
Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in Fukui prefecture, western Japan, to replace the existing facility, the ...
A natural nuclear reactor Questions raised by a fission chain reaction that occurred billions of years ago, and making silver compounds lighter with light, in our weekly dip into Nature ’s archive.
Stellaria, a French startup, has secured €23 million in funding to advance its fast neutron molten salt nuclear reactor technology, aiming for commercial deployment by 2035.