The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years.

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 of its initial Gravity reactor,

A “nuclear engine” has many advantages, notably providing a vehicle with an almost unlimited supply of onboard power, with no need for regular refuelling. That’s particularly attractive for large ships and submarines, where fuel stops at sea are few and far between. It’s even better for space craft, which cannot refuel at all.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Lockheed Martin is focusing on developing Fission Surface Power (FSP) as the essential solution

In Gov. Tony Evers’ State of the State address, he announced a nuclear study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison professors and a fusion grant.

What if the next nuclear plant didn’t rise above the horizon at all? A US start-up called Deep Fission is betting that the safest—and potentially cheapest—place for a reactor could be more than a mile underground, inside the kind of vertical shaft ...