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 ...

A global nuclear energy resurgence is underway, driven by the need for a stable, low-carbon energy mix and massive electricity demand projections spurred by the artificial intelligence boom. Deep ...

Deep Fission has started drilling for its first-of-a-kind "gravity reactor" project in Kansas, which places a 15-megawatt reactor 6,000 feet underground to cut operational costs by up to 80%. The ...

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Apr 29, 2026 at 6:31 am April 29, 2026 at 2:49 pm Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become ...

It says, for example, that it could nestle 100 nuclear reactors into 1-mile-deep holes on less than 3 acres of land and generate 1.5 billion watts of electric power. For reference, the U.S. Department ...

One news headline this week had a whiff of déjà vu about it. Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced that it was going public, hoping to garner investor support to build subterranean reactors to power ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission, Inc. (Nasdaq: FISN) (“Deep Fission” or the “Company”), an advanced nuclear energy company developing small modular pressurized water reactors installed ...

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.

Deep Fission, a Berkeley, California-based nuclear energy startup developing underground small modular reactors, on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering in the latest sign that Wall Street’s ...

Zap Energy announced plans Wednesday to become the first company to simultaneously pursue two tracks for nuclear power: fusion, an unproven but promising technology that smashes light atoms together ...