President Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, has ordered NASA to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, just weeks after being named interim head of the space agency. Duffy’s appointment as NASA’s chief administrator came after Elon Musk’s pick for the post,

Transportation Secretary and interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy outlined the space agency’s fast-track plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon on Tuesday. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon.

NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, wants to place a nuclear reactor on the moon within the next decade. According to a NASA directive, Duffy has accelerated the timeline for building the reactor,