Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlined the space agency's fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday.

“We're in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon. And to have a base on the moon, we need energy. And some of the key locations on the moon, we're going to get solar power, but this vision technology is critically important, and so we've spent hundreds of million [of] dollars studying,” Duffy said during a Department of Transportation (DOT) press conference.

“Can we do it? We are now going to move beyond studying, and we are going to be given direction to go,” Duffy added. “Let's start to deploy our technology to move to actually make this a reality.”

Duffy said that the reactor will have to generate 100 kilowatts

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