All posts tagged "Nuclear Power"

The Trump administration has been quietly expediting plans to put a nuclear plant on the moon in a geopolitical race with China and Russia to control the future of space.

NASA has awarded contracts to three companies to develop small nuclear reactors that could supply power in space by 2030, according to Politico which published a list of "under-the-radar developments" during President Donald Trump's first year in office during his second term.

The move was aimed to help prepare the United States for future space missions and could cost billions of dollars, although the space agency reportedly still needs to find the funding for the initiative. ...

TOKYO — Japan may go "momentarily" without nuclear power next month when the only one reactor still in operation shuts down for maintenance work, the country's industry minister warned Sunday.

RENNES, France — A French nuclear reactor shut down automatically Thursday after two small fires at the installation in the north of the country that firefighters quickly extinguished, officials said.

VIENNA — Eighty percent of nuclear power plants are more than 20 years old, raising safety concerns, the UN atomic agency warned in a draft report seen by AFP on Tuesday, a year after Japan's Fukushima disaster.