NASA is fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030 under a new directive from the agency’s interim administrator Sean Duffy. The plan revives a decades-old dream of scaling up nuclear power in space, a shift that would unlock futuristic possibilities and test legal and regulatory guidelines about the use of extraterrestrial resources and environments. Placing a nuclear reactor on the moon would allow the space industry to “start designing space systems around what we want to do, not what small amounts of power allow us to do. It’s the same leap that occurred when Earth-based societies moved from candlelight to grid electricity.”Could NASA Build a Lunar Nuclear Reactor by 2030? Establishing a nuclear plant on the moon by 2030 won’t be easy, but many experts believe it is within reach.