NASA picks three companies to develop lunar nuclear power systems
A fission system could power long-term missions to the Moon and Mars.
Nuclear power
China plans to build the first 'clean' commercial nuclear reactor
Thorium-based tech produces safer waste and can't be easily used for nukes.
DARPA picks Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin to build nuclear spacecraft
The two companies will work with General Atomics to design an agile rocket for cislunar missions.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
The case for making tiny nuclear reactors
Backers say that they're safer, cheaper and faster to build.
Three Mile Island's infamous nuclear plant shuts down after 45 years
It won't be free of radioactive material until 2078.
Is it time we gave nuclear power another chance?
Clean, green and capable of powering an energy-hungry future... right?
