California Startup Claims Historic ‘First’ in Fission Reactor Milestone

The startup’s achievement is impressive but underscores the quiet chaos of the nuclear industry following a series of ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Deep Fission Plans to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground

By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of ...
TechCrunch

Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC

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 ...
New Atlas

Deep Fission raises $30 million to build mile-deep nuclear reactor

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 ...
The Economist

Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper

Sometimes an idea is so elegant that it really deserves to work. One such is a proposal put forward by the boss of Deep Fission, an aspiring nuclear-power firm in Berkeley, California. Elizabeth ...
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Kansas could be the testing ground for a nuclear reactor built 1 mile underground

Deep Fission is a fledgling startup that says it can help tech companies meet the "explosive demand" for more energy to power artificial intelligence. It's one of two nuclear companies that have ...
Business Wire

Deep Fission Nuclear Completes $30M Financing in a Go-Public Transaction

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deep Fission, Inc. (“Deep Fission” or the “Company”), a pioneering advanced nuclear energy company placing small modular pressurized water reactors in boreholes one ...