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France’s Framatome And Italy’s ENEA To Cooperate On Nuclear Reactors For Moon

By Kamen Kraev
25 September 2025

Agreement focuses on fuel design, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing

France’s Framatome And Italy’s ENEA To Cooperate On Nuclear Reactors For Moon
Recent years have seen growing interest in nuclear applications for the Moon and deep space exploration, with fission reactors considered key to sustaining long-term missions. Courtesy Creative Commons/PIRO4D.
French nuclear company Framatome and Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development (Enea) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the design of nuclear fission reactors for potential use in future lunar settlements.

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