They dig a hole or have a bunker in place and they go underground,” Colorado School of Mines Professor Thomas Albrecht said ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few ...

Despite budget cuts, the White House just gave NASA a high-stakes nuclear mission. Find out why a lunar reactor is crucial ...

A nuclear microreactor could be installed at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora as part of a push across the Air Force and the Army to increase energy resilience.  Across the country, other customers ...

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 ...

The White House issued a directive on April 14 ordering NASA, the Pentagon, and the Department of Energy to develop a nuclear fission reactor capable of orbiting the moon, with a launch-ready target ...

With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s next: establishing an enduring presence on the moon. Through a ...

Buckley Space Force Base has been selected to operate a microreactor as part of the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations initiative.

The stock has rallied over the past few weeks, but may be getting ahead of itself.

Minor correction. The USS Seawolf that was built in the 1950s initially used liquid sodium. That reactor was unreliable and replaced with a pressurized water reactor after a year or two. It was the ...