In her announcement, Gov. Kathy Hochul gave few details about where the plant would be built, how much the project would cost ...

While the name might conjure images of a mini power plant, RTGs are power-efficient nuclear batteries that ... as humankind sets its sights on missions beyond Jupiter, visits to Saturn’s moons, ...

China aims to become a major space power and land astronauts on the moon by 2030, and its planned Chang’e-8 mission for 2028 would lay the groundwork for constructing a permanent, manned lunar base.

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Three Mile Island nuclear power plant with decommissioned cooling towers, at right, in this aerial photo taken in Middletown, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Friday, March 18, 2011. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg ...

Palisades Nuclear Plant, an 805-megawatt facility in Covert, Michigan, was shut down in May 2022. But the energy company that owns it, Holtec International, based in Jupiter, Florida, plans to ...

Nuclear fusion is different from nuclear fission, which is what powers current nuclear power plants. ... (NASA’s Europa Clipper, launched in 2024 towards one of Jupiter’s moons, ...

As of February 2024, Jupiter has 95 moons. By comparison, Mercury, and Venus are moonless, Earth has one moon, and Mars has two. Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively.

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...

Holtec, an energy industry equipment supplier based in Jupiter, Florida, acquired the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in August 2019 – a few months after it had been permanently closed – and is ...

China is considering building a nuclear plant on the moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) it is planning with Russia, a presentation by a senior official showed on Wednesday.