Nuclear NASA: Isaacman signs the DOE MOU
From the Space digest for 2026-10-10
What happened: Administrator Isaacman (X, Oct 8): "We're getting America underway on nuclear power in space and ushering in the era of a Nuclear NASA. With the signing of an MOU with @ENERGY, we're taking the next giant leap toward…" (snippet cut). Companion in-stream: the Artemis IV engines RT (Oct 6).
What's genuinely new: an agency-level nuclear framework — the sibling of the DoD demo wave (Army leases, Aberdeen IMSR, the Antares space reactor in the newgen thread) and the first NASA-DOE instrument since the fission-surface-power procurement era. No MOU text, scope, or instrument list in our feed — read the primary before weighing.
Watch: the MOU's text (ORNL/NNSA in signatories?), a fission-surface-power RFP, budget follow-through, wire pickup of the "Nuclear NASA" frame.
Links: Isaacman on X