Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

(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 ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat into a variety of materials — like water, liquid metal or molten salt — ...

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent to NASA officials in July and obtained by NPR. It’s an ambitious target ...

NASA announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday, in an attempt to stay ahead of China and Russia in a new space race. The goal is to have the reactor built before 2030, a ...

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

The Trump administration is accelerating plans to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a base for humans. The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA ...