NASA Wants To Put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

NASA is accelerating plans to set up a nuclear reactor to the Moon by the end of the decade, to power bases there and help America be the first nation to have an energy base powered by 24/7 nuclear power on the Moon and win the “second space race” with Russia and China.   Back in 2020, NASA was planning to build a base and a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2026 and invited proposals from companies ready to take on the challenge.  The timeline has long lapsed, but NASA isn’t giving up, all the more so that Russia…