{"id":1841,"date":"2025-08-05T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:44:36","slug":"nasa-to-build-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-by-2030-report-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/nasa-to-build-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-by-2030-report-states\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, report states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/nasa-to-build-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-by-2030-report-s_fsd9.640.jpg\">Nuclear energy could power future lunar bases and crewed missions.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/in.mashable.com\/science\/92649\/nasas-rumoured-50-budget-cuts-likely-to-kill-many-key-missions-elon-musk-calls-it-troubling\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slashing NASA\u2019s budget and workforce<\/a>, the space agency is moving ahead with a bold plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/04\/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that Transportation Secretary\/Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy will soon announce the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear energy could power future lunar bases and crewed missions. Even with the Trump administration slashing NASA\u2019s budget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}