AIKEN — The Savannah River Site Museum’s third annual Fall Fission Festival turned a parking lot into a science-based carnival of fun activities promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE) have filed patent protection and are working to scale production of a new class ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

NASA has put out a request for information (RFI) for its lunar “Fission Surface Power System,” an ambitious project that was unveiled earlier this month. The space agency also floated the idea that ...

Scientists in the United States have designed a microwire solar cell that could reportedly enable the coupling of singlet fission with silicon. Key to their achievement was an interface that transfers ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.