The Past and Future of the Moon

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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New information on how the moon may have possibly formed and our future plans for our only natural satellite. Nasa to build nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media | BBC NASA wants US to be the first nation to put nuclear reactor on the moon | CNN Politics Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon - POLITICO China found something in Moon samples that shouldn't be there - Earth.com Discovery of natural few-layer graphene on the Moon | National Science Review | Oxford Academic Scientists Shocked by Lunar Soil’s “Magic” in Space Survival Study | SciTechDaily Inherent lunar water enabled photothermal CO2 catalysis: Joule Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.6	where we bring you some of the more interesting, intriguing, and cool stories from around the world.
1:07.6	I'm Reggie Rizzou, and on today's episode, we're going to focus on the moon. We learn more about its past and what we could be doing with the world. I'm Reggie Rizzou, and on today's episode, we're going to focus on the
1:11.7	moon. We learn more about its past and what we could be doing with the moon in the future. That's all
1:16.9	coming up on cool stuff. I'm actually going to start with the future for the moon, as the United
1:23.0	States announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon. And yes, I'm not talking sci-fi movie here or anything like that,
1:31.3	real nuclear reactor on the moon.
1:33.3	It was in late July when Sean Duffy, a former Fox News host
1:37.3	and current US Transportation Secretary and now interim NASA Administrator,
1:42.3	issued a bold directive to get a 100 kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.
1:48.4	Now, you may be wondering, there's nobody there. Why are we putting a reactor on the moon? What is this for?
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