Duffy Lays Out Plan To Build Nuclear Plant On Moon

ABC News reports:

One full “day” on the moon is two weeks of light followed by approximately two weeks of darkness (in Earth time). Nuclear energy, referred to as fission surface power, or FSP, in the directive, is a “sustainable” and “high-powered” energy source that can survive through the lunar night and be deployed on other celestial bodies, like Mars, according to Duffy.

“We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon,” Duffy said at a press conference on Tuesday. “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 millions of dollars studying.”

“There’s a certain part of the moon that everyone knows is the best. We have ice there, we have sunlight there. We want to get there first and claim that for America,” Duffy said Tuesday.

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Duffy says we “have to marshall all our resources” to build human colonies on the moon and Mars and that’s why NASA is going to build a nuke plant on the moon. I missed this during the campaign. https://t.co/XN2PbrUYto

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 5, 2025