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 ...

Two companies, TerraPower and Deep Fission, have proposed building advanced nuclear reactors in Kansas. TerraPower, ...

Last week, a British company experimenting with fusion energy released an exciting new video of the inside of a nuclear fusion reactor. For the uninitiated, fusion is the merging of atoms. Whereas ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that Deep Fission was selected to participate in President Trump’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program. The initiative provides an opportunity to streamline ...

Deep Fission is a fledgling startup that says it can help tech companies meet the 'explosive demand' for more energy to power artificial intelligence.

Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds of feet of rock formed a ...

Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced Monday that it has gone public in a reverse merger, netting the company $30 million. No, it’s not 2021. The startup is proposing to build small, cylindrical ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), the pioneering nuclear energy startup revolutionizing the industry by placing reactors a mile underground, and Deep Isolation, a ...

Deep Fission, Inc. (“Deep Fission” or the “Company”), a pioneering advanced nuclear energy company placing small modular pressurized water reactors in boreholes one mile underground, announced today ...

Deep Fission, a California-based nuclear startup aiming to place small modular pressurized water reactors in boreholes one mile underground, has announced the selection of its first three planned ...

Nuclear fission promises 24-7 electricity but comes with safety, regulatory and complexity issues. Credit: NASA Returning humans to the Moon is NASA’s top priority. Living there is going to require ...