This episode was produced in collaboration with and sponsored by Emerson. When scientists first split the atom, they didn’t realize what they’d done until physicist Lise Meitner figured out they had ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific ...

In a first for tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel research, a cross-cutting effort among scientists at the Department of ...

As the spallation neutron beam passes through the TRISO particle, some neutrons are absorbed by the uranium while most are scattered away. A neutron area detector collects the scattered neutrons, ...

EnergyX launches a nuclear materials platform producing high-purity lithium isotopes to support fusion and fission reactors.

There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

An image with three panels, all tinted green. In one panel, a woman wearing protective clothing, goggles, gloves, and hair covering holds a clipboard in one arm and reaches with the other toward a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah appears poised to become a future location of a California-based energy company's underground nuclear reactor. Deep Fission in September announced Utah, Texas and Kansas as the ...

GREIFSWALD, GERMANY - OCTOBER 29: A worker explains a photo taken about a year and a half ago that shows construction of the interior plasma chamber of the Wendelstein 7-X experimental fusion reactor ...

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.

PARSONS, Kan. (WIBW) — A groundbreaking ceremony is set for next week on an underground nuclear reactor in southeast Kansas, officials said. Deep Fission Inc., based in Berkeley, California, announced ...

California-based Deep Fission says it will install an underground reactor in Kansas. Deep Fission says it plans to install a nuclear reactor underground at an industrial park in southeast Kansas.