The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutron scattering reveals hard-to-detect chemistry inside novel reactor fuels

As the spallation neutron beam passes through the TRISO particle, some neutrons are absorbed by the uranium while most are scattered away. A neutron area detector collects the scattered neutrons, ...
Interesting Engineering

UK lunar reactor dream on hold as Rolls-Royce struggles to find launch support: Report

Reports suggest that Rolls-Royce has placed its lunar micro-reactor development on indefinite hold after government funding ...
New Atlas

Small modular nuclear reactors could cut commercial shipping emissions

Nuclear power isn't just for naval ships anymore as demonstrated by the Nuclear Propulsion in merchant Shipping (NuProShip II ...

Rolls-Royce drops plan for nuclear reactor on the Moon

Rolls-Royce has halted a taxpayer-backed plan to put a mini nuclear reactor on the Moon. The engineering giant drew up plans to develop a lunar power source for the UK Space Agency and was handed £9m ...

NANO Nuclear Strengthens Nuclear Regulatory Licensing Team with Appointment of Michael Montecalvo as its Licensing Director

Michael Montecalvo joins NANO Nuclear following Senior Licensing Manager role at other advanced reactor developers and ...
energydigital

NANO Nuclear Energy Issues Request for Information Soliciting Potential Commercial Partner Input in Support of U.S. Department of Energy and NASA Lunar Surface Reactor Program

New York, N.Y., Jan. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) (“NANO Nuclear” or “the Company”), a leading advanced nuclear micro modular reactor (MMR) and technology ...
WHNT

Department of Energy, NASA renew partnership to put nuclear reactor on the moon

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Department of Energy and NASA have announced that they are renewing their commitment to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. The DOE and NASA announced Tuesday that ...
Gizmochina

US Will Build Nuclear Reactor On Moon By 2030: Makes Radical Plans For Space Leadership

The United States has confirmed plans to build its first nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2030. NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on January 13 to ...
Nuclear Engineering International

The new space race

A concept illustration of a fission surface power system on the surface of the moon (Source: Lockheed Martin) Reviving the 70-year-old space race, the US and Russia – the latter collaborating with ...
Space Coast Daily

NASA, Department of Energy to Develop and Deploy Lunar Surface Nuclear Reactor By 2030

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, left, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman meet at the Department of Energy headquarters in Washington on Jan. 8, 2026. (NASA/John Kraus image) NASA, along with ...
Yahoo

Mass Burial Discovered at Future Nuclear Reactor Site

Archaeologists in England have uncovered a large ancient burial site during construction on a nuclear reactor, per an episode of Digging for Britain which airs on the BBC on Jan. 14. As construction ...