The White House has now ordered federal agencies to get a nuclear reactor ready to power the Moon by 2030, turning a ...
The United States flew a reactor in space in the 1960s and has studied nuclear thermal propulsion for decades. Fuel is not the primary limitation either; the enriched uranium supply chain is ...
In response to the climate crisis and their major role in greenhouse gas emissions the fossil fuel industry and governments that rely on oil and gas have dug in and ...
Energy is fundamentally important—researchers have linked a lack of reliable energy to poor physical health, poor mental ...
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), the pioneering nuclear energy startup revolutionizing the industry by placing reactors a mile underground, and Deep Isolation, a ...
Deep Fission, Inc. ("Deep Fission" or the "Company"), a pioneering advanced nuclear energy company placing small modular pressurized water reactors (SMRs) in boreholes one mile underground, announced ...
Energy in space does not work the way it does on Earth. Solar panels help, but sunlight is not constant on the Moon. Nights there last about two weeks. Temperatures swing sharply. Equipment freezes.
Parsons, Kansas, may be the site of a California startup’s first ever 1-mile-deep nuclear reactor — with support from county commissioners, both Republican Kansas U.S. senators and Democratic Gov.