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Sebastian Corbisiero is the Department of Energy’s Space Reactor Initiative national technical director.
NASA and the Department of Energy present the lunar fission effort as a strategic component of U.S. leadership in space commerce and technology.
The agreement calls for NASA and the Department of Energy to work together on developing, fueling, authorizing, and readying a fission surface power system for launch and deployment on the lunar surface.
The NASA–Department of Energy collaboration builds on more than half a century of joint work in space exploration, technology development, and areas related to national security.
Past cooperation between NASA and the Department of Energy includes provision of radioisotope power systems and other nuclear technologies that have enabled missions to operate far from the Sun or in extreme environments.
By pursuing a lunar surface reactor, NASA and the Department of Energy aim to create a power system that can be adapted for future Mars missions and other deep space activities.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman supports using nuclear power to achieve NASA’s lunar and Mars objectives and views the new NASA–DOE agreement as contributing capabilities for an expanded era of space exploration.
NASA and the Department of Energy expect the planned lunar reactor system to provide safe, efficient, and abundant electrical power for years without refueling, enabling continuous operations regardless of local lighting or temperature conditions.
The Department of Energy will contribute expertise in nuclear fuel, reactor design, safety, and authorization processes to ensure the lunar power system meets performance and regulatory requirements.
A new memorandum of understanding between NASA and the Department of Energy formalizes collaboration on the development and deployment of nuclear reactors on the Moon and in orbit aligned with President Trump’s goal of American space superiority.
In December 1993 Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary initiated the largest declassification of information in Department of Energy history, including acknowledgment of many nuclear tests and nuclear weapons accidents during the Cold War.
The Department of Energy released a complete inventory of U.S. production, acquisition, use, and distribution of plutonium from 1944 to 1994 in 1996.
IonQ signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy in July 2025 to advance development and deployment of quantum technologies in space.
The NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026 includes amendments to encourage NASA’s coordination with the Department of Energy to support space nuclear research and development.
Sebastian Corbisiero is the Department of Energy Space Reactor Initiative national technical director.
The INL report outlines a "Go Big or Go Home" option to build a 100–500 kilowatts-electric power project led by NASA or the Department of War with support from the Department of Energy.
The RADAR work received support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
A collaboration led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory developed the RADAR framework in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility dedicated to open science.
The CMS study was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy and the full open-access results appear in the journal Physics Letters B.