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Rolls-Royce Plans To Build Nuclear Reactor on the Moon, Receives $3.5M Funding From the UK

TECH & INNOVATION 03.19.2023 23:17 PM

Rolls-Royce has been working on a Micro-reactor program that will provide power for a future lunar base where humans could live and work while on the Moon. Check it out in this article to learn more.

NASA Wants People to Help Them Put a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon by 2030; Here’s How

11.30.2021 22:42 PM

The NASA wants to hear about any good ideas for putting a nuclear fission power plant on the moon. NASA collaborates with the Idaho National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy to establish a non-solar power source on the moon by 2030.

NASA Artemis Program Taking the Next Step to Make Moon Nuclear Reactor a Reality in the Next 10 Years

11.22.2021 05:11 AM

NASA astronauts are going back to the lunar environment as early as 2024, with a vision of eventually instituting a long-term human existence on the moon, a place that's hasn't been seen in person since the early 1970s.

China Begins to Build Its Small Modular Nuclear Reactor that Will Generate a Billion kWh Every Year

07.28.2021 07:30 AM

China has started building the world's first commercial onshore small nuclear reactor project, dubbed the Linglong One or ACP100. It is estimated to take almost five years to build in Hainan.

Study on Aluminum Alloy Could Benefit Crewed Space Missions

12.08.2020 20:00 PM

The MIAMI-2 facility recently helped Dr. Matheus Tunes examine a new allow that would harden aluminum without the need to increase its weight considerably.

NASA Plans to Operate Nuclear Power Plants on Moon and Mars by 2026

11.18.2020 06:00 AM

NASA mulls building a nuclear power plant on the moon and Mars by 2026 to support its long-term exploration plans.

3 Months Travel to Mars: Possible With New Nuclear Rocket Engine Design

10.26.2020 07:00 AM

Developed by USNC-Tech, the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion engine could be more efficient and reliable than chemical combustion engines and safer than previous nuclear rocket designs.

Japan's Volcanos Threaten Nuclear Reactors, Expert Warns

10.17.2014 18:47 PM

One volcano expert is warning that Japan's massive 2011 earthquake--which damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and caused a nuclear crisis--could cause large volcanic eruptions in the coming years, yet he could not say when people could expect the eruptions to happen.

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