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May 9, 2022, 12:00PMNuclear News

The Department of Defense wants to deploy spacecraft in cislunar space—the area between Earth and the moon’s orbit—with thrust and agility that only nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) can provide. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), through its Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program, is looking to private industry for the design, development, fabrication, assembly, and testing of a nuclear thermal rocket engine fueled with high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel to heat a liquid hydrogen propellant.

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Five companies, five bases: The Army’s Janus Program takes shape

August 28, 2026, 3:12PMNuclear News

Between the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad programs, August has already been a busy month for federal partnerships with the nuclear industry.That trend...

Zeno RHU will aim to survive lunar night

August 20, 2026, 12:00PMNuclear News

As established by a commercial payload agreement, a radioisotope heating unit (RHU) developed by Zeno Power will be onboard one of Firefly Aerospace’s existing Blue Ghost missions to the...

New ML framework predicts shifts between shots at DIII-D

August 18, 2026, 7:14AMNuclear News

At the DIII-D National Fusion Facility near San Diego, Calif., home to the largest operating tokamak in North America, researchers from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility worked to...

NASA and Radiant selected to receive HALEU

July 27, 2026, 12:19PMNuclear News

Last week, the Department of Energy announced a conditional commitment to provide high-assay low-enriched uranium to NASA for its Space Reactor-1 Freedom rocket and to Radiant Industries for...

MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty

July 16, 2026, 3:22PMNuclear News

Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in...

Seven projects selected for DARPA’s Rads to Watts

July 7, 2026, 5:00PMNuclear News

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected seven teams for its Rads to Watts program, setting off a competition to design radiovoltaic cells capable of providing power...

NASA prepares to solicit moon surface power, teases RTG-powered moon rover

July 1, 2026, 9:40AMNuclear News

NASA has announced that it will release a solicitation related to lunar surface power this month and that it is considering sending a rover powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator...

General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility

June 15, 2026, 3:17PMNuclear News

General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale...

Antares achieves zero-power criticality at INL

June 5, 2026, 12:32PMNuclear News

Leveraging more than $140 million in private capital fundraising, over 322,000 square feet of operational manufacturing space, and multifaceted partnerships with the Departments of Energy and...

Nuclear EOs: One year later

May 22, 2026, 12:46PMNuclear News

This Saturday, May 23, will mark one year since President Trump issued four executive orders (EOs) that sought to implement sweeping changes across the U.S. nuclear industry. From regulatory...

DOD seeks in-space demo of nuclear rocket engine in FY 2026

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