Posted on 08/04/2025 6:24:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Trump administration aims to accelerate the construction of a nuclear reactor on the moon, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wrote in a memo distributed internally on Monday.
The space agency has previously explored the possibility of installing an electricity-generating nuclear reactor on the lunar surface capable of powering a sustained human presence, but Duffy intends to fast-track the project and more than double the reactor’s power output, according to documents obtained by The Post.
“To properly advance this critical technology to be able to support a future lunar economy, high power energy generation on Mars, and to strengthen our national security in space, it is imperative the agency move quickly,” Duffy wrote in the memo.
“It is about winning the second space race,” a NASA senior official told Politico, which first reported on Duffy’s plans.
Duffy’s directive will instruct NASA to seek out proposals for a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor that would be ready for launch by 2030.
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Didn’t he do that already? I mean announce?
Sean Duffy, idiot nonpareil.
Maybe it is just to piss Elon off LOL.
You are too kind.
Get the Navy shipyards squared away while we blast to outer space.
Sounds like the ravings of a lunatic.
You sound jealous.
This project might have value. But is it worth borrowing money for it, money that our grandchildren will be struggling to repay?
We are a debtor nation. So that question must be asked.
A Raving Lunatic!
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I love That and a Perfect Discripture
I might Add.
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It All underlines Trump’s Energy Policies.
Energy Is Paramount to Forward Civilization and American culture Is the One to Do It with Nuclur Power!
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Trump is The GOAT!
You sound as if you don’t know what you are talking about.
Isn't that against International law?
“Maybe it is just to piss Elon off LOL.”
Elon is bypassing the moon straight to Mars.
NASA Director;
Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician, former television presenter, lobbyist, prosecutor, and lumberjack who has served as the United States secretary of transportation since 2025.
Friend of Elon rejected as NASA director;
Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut. He received a bachelor’s degree with a major in professional aeronautics from the fully online Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide Campus. He is the founder and chairman of Shift4 Payments, a payment processor, and the founder of Draken International, which provides adversary training to the U.S., British, and other NATO air forces. Through his leadership in private spaceflight, Isaacman has been credited with advancing competition in the space industry and reducing reliance on government programs. As of May 2025, his estimated net worth is US$1.4 billion.
Isaacman commanded Inspiration4 – the first all-civilian spaceflight – using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience which launched from Kennedy Space Center on September 16, 2021. He later led Polaris Dawn, during which he became the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk.
Trump needs to get Elon to do it.
We don’t need this. Good grief.
The one place that has PLENTY of room for MASSIVE solar farms is the moon. I mean REALLY LARGE areas for solar farms.
They need to quit messing with the moon. It isn’t that big. Leave it alone.
Cool, they can run some transmission lines back to Earth to help with our energy shortages.
Nope
Outer space treaty says no nuclear weapons in space
The surface of the moon is about the same as Africa. Lots of minerals
High ground. As important as Panama or Greenland
A reactor would pave the way for a base and mining
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