Rolls-Royce’s bid to put a nuclear reactor on the moon receives funding from UK Space Agency

To that end, the UK Space Agency today announced funding for Rolls-Royce to construct a nuclear reactor that would serve as the foundation for a future lunar base. The UK Space Agency has now donated £2.9 billion (about $3.52 billion), following the £249,000 (about $302,000) it gave Rolls-Royce for its preliminary research last year.