Here on Earth, the ability to generate electricity is something we take for granted. We can count on the sun to illuminate solar panels, and the movement of air and water to spin turbines. Fossil ...

The Kilopower reactors are tiny nuclear reactors that have been redesigned for safe power. The full power runs for the test reactors will be done this month and the next two months. Before the ...

NASA is working on a nuclear reactor to power (and later propel) deep-space exploration, such as human missions to the moon and Mars. Kilopower is a 1- to 10-kilowatt design that could theoretically ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Patrick McClure is the Kilopower project lead at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos ...

Many of our most ambitious space missions to space have been made possible using nuclear power. On Thursday (Jan. 18), scientists and officials from NASA and the Department of Energy gathered at the ...