It seems that the United States is keen to get in on the nuclear renaissance as the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has ...

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

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

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

But building a reactor also raises critical questions about access and power. Nuclear power in space isn’t a new idea. Since the 1960s, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope ...

Most nuclear power stations generate power from pressurised-water reactors ( PWR s). The water concerned has two roles: ...

“The NuScale Power Module, the company’s groundbreaking SMR technology, is a small, safe, pressurized water reactor that can ...

The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035.