Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding nuclear fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the ...

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 ...

Zap Energy, a Seattle-area fusion startup, is expanding into nuclear fission, aiming to sell modular reactors based on Toshiba’s 4S design while continuing its fusion research. The company appointed ...

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.

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 ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) reports it has tested a high-temperature fission chamber prototype built by Curtiss-Wright Nuclear that operated steadily at 800 degrees Celsius (about 1,472 ...

Deep Fission, which aims to place small modular reactors in boreholes a mile underground, has signed an agreement to purchase low-enriched uranium from Urenco USA to support demonstration and testing ...

Deep Fission’s underground design Deep Fission says its underground design could be scaled up to provide a lot of energy with little space. It says, for example, that it could nestle 100 nuclear ...

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 ...

In a proof-of-concept demonstration, researchers at Utah University and Elemental Nuclear Energy Corporation plan ...