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

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

The Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly ...

Today’s Forbes Daily covers Eli Lilly’s historic loss, the new GPT-5 for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, reactions to Instagram’s new map ...

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

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

Nuclear power in space isn't a new idea. Since the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope generators that use small amounts of radioactive elements to power satellites.

While nuclear reactors have been around on Earth for over 70 years, placing them on the moon would be unprecedented. NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, is aiming to do the undone: a reactor ...

If you want to know where the next nuclear reactor is being built, you may have to look up at the stars. Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy is moving forward with a ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a series of requests from Holtec International that lay the groundwork to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan, the ...

Fabrication of the reactor core for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor - the first microreactor to be built and operated in the USA - has begun at  BWX Technologies' Innovation ...