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Rolls-Royce To Build Miniature Nuclear Reactor for Future Moon Base By 2029 - Industry Tap

The UK Space Agency has awarded Rolls-Royce a £2.9-million (US$3.5-million) contract to develop a demonstrator modular nuclear reactor that could be installed on the Moon by 2029 to support permanent human outposts on the lunar surface.

British engineering group Rolls-Royce has secured additional funding of GBP2.9 million (USD3.5 million) from the UK Space Agency for a project that will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor. The company plans to have a reactor ready to send to the Moon by 2029.

On a long enough timeline in which mankind doesn't abandon human-crewed spaceflight beyond LEO as we did in the early 70s, a nuclear reactor will li...

The UK Space Agency is backing research by Rolls-Royce into how nuclear power could be used to support a future Moon base for astronauts.

Research will look at how to provide energy allowing humans live and work on the Moon.

The UK Space Agency has awarded Rolls-Royce £2.9m to build a nuclear reactor for a future moon base.

Ansaldo Nuclear has been awarded a contract for the installation of key connections between existing and new facilities at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, England. It is the first contract awarded under Sellafield Ltd's Programme and Project Partners new goods and services agreement.

The new SIXEP Continuity Plant will make sure that the Sellafield site will have continued availability of effluent treatment streams to reduce high hazard and risk reduction.