This is about space exploration. This is about this next phase,” Duffy, interim NASA administrator and ‘The Real World’ alum, said

The US is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade. China had also reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035.

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED.