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The acting chief of the U.S. space agency NASA is expected to unveil a directive this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, according to U.S. media reports, as the United States seeks to strengthen its space presence amid growing competition from China and Russia.
Citing internal documents obtained by Politico, the report said NASA will solicit proposals from private industry to develop a 100-kilowatt reactor capable of powering long-term missions on the lunar surface. The system is intended to support future crewed operations.
“This is about winning the second space race,” a senior NASA official told Politico, speaking anonymously.
The agency has reportedly been instructed to select a program lead and begin industry consultations within 60 days, according to the report.
The aim is to launch the reactor by the end of the decade — around the same time that China plans to land its first astronaut on the moon.
NASA had previously funded research into a smaller 40-kilowatt system, but the new plan outlines a more ambitious scale and timeline. The documents also caution that the first country to install a reactor could declare exclusive zones on the moon, potentially limiting access for others.
The plan comes as NASA faces potential budget challenges. The Trump administration has proposed cutting the agency’s budget by nearly a quarter, from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion, raising questions about how the nuclear initiative would be funded — and what resources would remain for traditional space science.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Swiss researchers are developing biocomputers made from living cells, aiming to merge biology and computing in an energy-efficient system once confined to science fiction.
Snapchat will start charging users who store more than 5GB of photos and videos in its Memories feature, prompting backlash from long-time users.
NASA officials on Tuesday said the agency's first crewed flight in its Artemis programme - a trip around the moon and back - is on track for launch in April and could potentially be moved up to February 2026.
In a discovery that pushes the limits of our cosmic imagination, astronomers have revealed a colossal bridge of gas and stars stretching between galaxies, accompanied by the longest tail ever observed, an intergalactic structure on a scale that rewrites what we know about the Universe.
The GLOBSEC Initiative on the Future of Cyberspace Cooperation has released a new research paper examining NATO’s potential use of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity.
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