The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. In April 2025, China reportedly ...

(The Conversation) – The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Trump administration plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon before China can do the same. Duffy, who is also serving as interim NASA administrator, ...

Kairos Power, the California-based company building advanced nuclear test reactors in Oak Ridge, has reached another milestone in obtaining a construction permit for its first electricity-producing ...

A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed ...

(The Hill) – Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlined the space agency’s fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday. “We’re in a race to the ...

"Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon" is not a headline I imagined reading before last week. Sure, as a sci-fi loving nerd, I could see a future where nuclear power played a role in ...

If you spend a little too much time on the internet, you'd believe that the Freemasons or the Illuminati have a hub in the middle of Colorado. Soon, they might have access to radioactive material.

What d’ya say – want to design a nuclear reactor? And why not? It’s a slow day, and what else are we going to do? “You’re going to learn how to heat water about ten degrees.” When you get down to ...

There have been three major accidents at commercial nuclear reactors – Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011). Let’s take a look at each of these accidents to see what ...

Probably most efficient to dump it into the moon and heat the rock? Per wikipedia the Seawolf class of subs uses liquid sodium to cool, but even so being in the ocean gives you a place to ultimately ...