Why would you want a "proper" reactor in space, instead of the RTGs we use now?
Why put one on the moon, as opposed to high orbit, or sending it with a probe to $(DISTANT_PLACE)?
I've got about fifty other questions but they're all variants of "can these chuds actually pull it off?"
Vastly more power. RTGs are a few hundred watts, this reactor will be 100kW
Intent is as a testbed for future reactors that would power a permanent lunar base or other large-scale lunar operation
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- NASA was already doing this for Biden as an official program, and going back even farther in studies and such. Trump is making the goal bigger/sooner, but this isn't some wild idea that some golf buddy gave them