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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You have to lift too much mass to generate significant amounts of power.
Well, at least they aren’t planning on installing wind-generators.
Unfortunately, massive solar arrays have at least two big problems. First, any given surface will be in darkness approximately two weeks out of every month. The lunar cycle from new moo to full moon and back to new moon is a thing. Second, micro meteorite impacts will over time degrade and eventually destroy the solar arrays.
I was just thinking. Man will be the first to introduce deadly concentrated radioactive material into the vast universe of space.
Going to the Moon and other planents is ridiculous.
I could see packing huge shuttles full of libs and Rats and firing them into the Sun as the only worthwhile point of a space program.
Great... Maybe we will finally be able to install a power grid, and illuminate the dark side of the moon. Lets check with Hank Johnson, just to be sure there are no obvious risks in doing so.
Who'd enforce it? Who'd care?
Hey! Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? They say the food is great but there is no atmosphere.
It gives mankind something to do besides fight wars and conduct dirt-side politics. It is very good to the Spirit of Man.
There is no dark side of the moon. There is the far side. The entire moon gets exposed to the sun within its 28 day orbit of the Earth.
how dare you use logic in connection with a Hank Johnson joke! lol
47 got rid or Isaacman in favor of Duffy, showing the way to make America Great Again. /s
Well, at least they aren’t planning on installing wind-generators.
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But nothing is stopping them from installing space heaters ...
Man will be the first to introduce deadly concentrated radioactive material into the vast universe of space.
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Other than any given star.
It is welfare for AI graphic artists.
The contractors are going to make a killing on this.
The comments on this Zero Hedge thread are wonderful.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-administration-fast-track-nuclear-reactor-moon
The project is going to amuse us now that late night comedy is going away...
The best suggestion was that we have the WNBA play their games there—then they won’t have to worry about hecklers throwing green stuff on the court.
“I was just thinking. Man will be the first to introduce deadly concentrated radioactive material into the vast universe of space.”
God did it first.
Genesis 1:14
“There is no dark side of the moon. “
The dark side is the side away from the sun.
There is no dark side of the moon.
Matter of fact, it’s all dark.
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