It aims to attract data centers and other energy-intensive industries. Officials break ground on first-of-its-kind ...

The race to plug a nuclear reactor into the lunar regolith is no longer a thought experiment. The United States, China and Russia are now treating fission power on the Moon as a strategic objective, ...

Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground at an industrial park in southeast Kansas. State and local government leaders are on board. It's part of a national push for new ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This ...

Washington stateCompanies are pressing ahead to develop emerging technologies, like fusion reactors and small modular units.

It’s no secret now that, for the first time in history, humanity is seriously looking to populate other bodies in the solar system. The prime targets are the good old Moon and Mars, and already plans ...

NASA engineers are actively investigating nuclear fission as a possible source of energy for a lunar outpost and the agency has signed contracts for the first stages of the development of a ...

NASA and the Department of Energy have completed tests on several fission surface power components within the last few weeks. The agencies are researching technologies that could enable possible use ...

CLEVELAND — When NASA astronauts return to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost, they will need power sources on the lunar surface. Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland ...

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BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission Inc. (Deep Fission), a nuclear energy company pioneering a new approach to clean power by placing safe, small modular reactors (SMRs) in boreholes a ...

When Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction that creates a net energy ...