I have been saying for quite some time that of course we have enough safe experience with nuclear power for major transport, in the nuclear submarine area. The record has been screaming at NASA for years - here we are, small, safe, used throughout the world, can provide a space craft with years of power and what in the H are you waiting for.
Is this another “Sputnik” moment, where the Russians are out there first and then the U.S. develops a major response?
And when it falls out of the sky —- who gets nuked?