NASA’s Sean Duffy Wants U.S. to Be First to Put Nuclear Reactor on Moon by 2030

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Interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy shared plans to make the U.S. the first nation to put a nuclear reactor on the moon

“We’re behind, right? … We have to marshal all of our resources, all of our focus on going to the moon, which is what we’re going to do,” he said during a Department of Transportation press conference on Aug. 5

Duffy is aiming for NASA to accomplish this by 2030

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy , the interim NASA administrator, proclaimed that the U.S. needs to “get our act together” when it comes to the ongoing race to the moon and Mars against other nations.

To do this, Duffy , 53, shared during a press conference NASA’s plan to make the U.S. the first to put a nuclear reactor on the moon with an aim of by 2030.

“We’re in a race to the moon, i