That surge has pushed power demand higher as new data centers come online. Goldman Sachs estimates electricity use from those ...

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

The Trump administration is pushing efforts to place a nuclear reactor on the moon to power a future human base. A newly ...

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The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

Nuclear power in space isn't a new idea. Since the 1960s, the US and the Soviet Union have relied on radioisotope generators that use small amounts of radioactive elements to power satellites.

Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for ...

While nuclear reactors have been around on Earth for over 70 years, placing them on the moon would be unprecedented. NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, is aiming to do the undone: a reactor ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a series of requests from Holtec International that lay the groundwork to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan, the ...

The Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary is scheduled to shut down its Reactor 2 for planned maintenance early on Friday. The plant's operator announced this in a statement on Thursday but did not ...

Its stock has already been on a roll, thanks to the resurgence of the nuclear segment.