NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than uranium—the most common fission fuel. The system also uses molten salt instead of ...

Giving a whole new meaning to underground power, startup Deep Fission Nuclear has secured US$30 million in funding to install a micro-reactor in a mile-deep borehole by July 4, 2026 as part of the US ...

The company and Kansas officials hailed the plan in December to build a reactor in Parsons by July 4. Deep Fission now says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A company with a vision of installing “discreet, bespoke,” small, nuclear reactors 1 mile underground for data centers and other ...

Outdone only by nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fission releases enormous amounts of energy. The ‘spicy rocks’ that are at the core of both natural and artificial fission reactors are generally ...

Innovative startup Deep Fission is pioneering next-generation nuclear energy by deploying a "gravity reactor" in a mile-deep ...

Dozens of people gathered at a meeting to hear from the company and share their opinions about the first of a new type of ...

The demand for reliable, 24/7 power for data centers is driving a historic level of interest in building new nuclear reactors. Current regulations and the high cost of qualifying new materials push ...

A company with a vision of installing “discreet, bespoke,” small, nuclear reactors 1 mile underground for data centers and other electricity-hungry industries plans to put its first reactors in Kansas ...