NASA, DOE reactor program to cooperate on nuclear power

NASA is cooperating with the Department of Energy's Naval Reactors program to investigate space nuclear power and propulsion technologies, the aerospace agency said. The partnership is developing a NASA spacecraft, the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, that is intended to use nuclear energy to visit...

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