This is about space exploration. This is about this next phase,” Duffy, interim NASA administrator and ‘The Real World’ alum, said

The US is rushing to put nuclear power reactors on the Moon and Mars, and hopes to launch the first system by the end of the decade. China had also reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035.

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants. Julia Musto reports