Why NASA administrator Sean Duffy’s atomic directives are not that outlandish.
T his week NASA administrator Sean Duffy declared the Trump Administration’s intention to land a working nuclear fission reactor on the moon by the end of the decade. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon,” Duffy said.
Planting reactors is more effective than planting a flag in the lunar dust. Duffy referenced the idea of a “keep-out zone” around a reactor that effectively lays claim to a desirable area, like a craters holding frozen water.
Does Duffy’s 5-year timetable seem too aggressive? Not particularly, when you consider that NASA and…
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