Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, ...

Although it has long triggered fears of meltdowns and radioactive waste, nuclear power is considered an 'extremely safe,' zero-emission power source.

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...

A base on the moon would be more democratic than those that Musk and his acolytes have advocated building on Mars. Given ...

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to ‘get our act together’ ...

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

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

Nuclear reactors on the Moon and at Denver airport, Kentucky’s new uranium enrichment facility, and nuclear energy restarts are driving Trump’s goals.

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 ...