On February 2, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new categorical exclusion (CATEX) under the National Environmental Policy ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Energy has announced a "categorical exclusion for authorisation, siting, construction, operation, ...

Turning the dream of abundant, always-available power into reality demands breakthrough technology. Enter Stellaria's Stellarium reactor.

California-based Deep Fission plans to install an underground reactor in Kansas. Parsons, Kansas, may be the site of a California startup’s first ever 1-mile-deep nuclear reactor — with support from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the quest to safely generate limitless clean energy, China has just taken a giant step closer. Scientists in Gansu province in the country's west have achieved the milestone of reloading fuel to an ...