A global nuclear energy resurgence is underway, driven by the need for a stable, low-carbon energy mix and massive electricity demand projections spurred by the artificial intelligence boom. Deep ...

The startup’s achievement is impressive but underscores the quiet chaos of the nuclear industry following a series of sweeping executive orders in May. Reading time 3 minutes In May, a series of ...

Late last week, Israel targeted three of Iran's key nuclear facilities—Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely ...

Deep Fission has started drilling for its first-of-a-kind "gravity reactor" project in Kansas, which places a 15-megawatt reactor 6,000 feet underground to cut operational costs by up to 80%. The ...

It says, for example, that it could nestle 100 nuclear reactors into 1-mile-deep holes on less than 3 acres of land and generate 1.5 billion watts of electric power. For reference, the U.S. Department ...

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BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission, Inc. (“Deep Fission” or the “Company”), a pioneering advanced nuclear energy company placing small modular pressurized water reactors (SMRs) in ...

One news headline this week had a whiff of déjà vu about it. Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced that it was going public, hoping to garner investor support to build subterranean reactors to power ...

California-based Deep Fission says it will install an underground reactor in Kansas. Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground at an industrial park in southeast Kansas.

Nobody said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working for decades to crack the problem. But over the last year or so, fusion startup Zap Energy took a ...

Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms together ...