The US company Deep Fission wants to build nuclear power plants deep underground. An initial test drilling serves to verify ...

California startup Deep Fission has begun drilling a test well for its underground small modular PWR as part of DOE’s Reactor Pilot Program.

Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO) (Oklo), an advanced nuclear technology company, today announced that it has signed a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to support the design, ...

California-based startup Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has begun ...

The U.S. is betting big on nuclear power — and it wants three new fission reactors up and running in less than a year. The Department of Energy recently launched its Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, ...

Deep Fission, a California-based nuclear startup, has officially moved from concept to construction. The ...

Innovative startup Deep Fission is pioneering next-generation nuclear energy by deploying a "gravity reactor" in a mile-deep borehole, a design that promises to slash operational costs by up to 80% ...

Advanced computing is being utilized to predict a key occurrence in nuclear fission reactions, which could help improve energy production in future plants, according to a new stud ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a method to ...

A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in the second of its two new reactors, Georgia Power said Wednesday, a key step toward providing carbon-free electricity. The unit of Atlanta ...

The race to plug a nuclear reactor into the lunar regolith is no longer a thought experiment. The United States, China and Russia are now treating fission power on the Moon as a strategic objective, ...

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 ...