NASA has been tasked with adding nuclear power to its future lunar base by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
“We’re able to build a base,” Duffy, NASA’s acting administrator, told members of the press on Aug. 5. “But this is critically important. There’s a certain part of the moon that everyone knows is the best. We have ice there. We have sunlight there. We want to get there first and claim that for America. And to do this is, this part of the fission technology is critically important to sustain life, because solar won’t do it.”
In a letter sent to NASA leadership on July 31, Duffy said the agency has until the end of 2030 to have that power source ready to go to the moon….
US Plans Nuclear Reactor on the Moon—Here’s What to Know
