Construction on a revolutionary new kind of nuclear power plant is underway in Kansas. According to KCUR, an NPR affiliate, ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

It’s no secret now that, for the first time in history, humanity is seriously looking to populate other bodies in the solar system. The prime targets are the good old Moon and Mars, and already plans ...

Instead of monster-size reactors, the state is now home to multiple ventures involving smaller reactors — all using ...

NASA engineers are actively investigating nuclear fission as a possible source of energy for a lunar outpost and the agency has signed contracts for the first stages of the development of a ...

NASA and the Department of Energy have completed tests on several fission surface power components within the last few weeks. The agencies are researching technologies that could enable possible use ...

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Many advances in technology spring from the mind of a single genius, but others, like nuclear power, are the product of many minds over generations.

CLEVELAND — When NASA astronauts return to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost, they will need power sources on the lunar surface. Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), a nuclear energy company pioneering a new approach to clean power by placing safe, small modular reactors (SMRs) in boreholes a ...

Fission surface power systems - depicted in this conceptual illustration – could provide reliable power for human exploration of the moon under Artemis (the human space flight program to explore the ...

NASA and the US Department of Energy have selected three design concept proposals for a fission surface power system. NASA NASA is one step closer to finalizing nuclear power some 238,900 miles away ...