Deep-space exploration is trading chemical rockets for nuclear fission. To expand human presence beyond ...

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Bean from Apollo 12 puts the plutonium-238 fuel from the lunar module into the SNAP-27 (Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) ...

Deep Fission, the company planning a one-mile underground nuclear reactor in Parsons, Kansas, has passed a regulatory milestone, but at the same time is facing new financial questions. A financial ...

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Deep Fission is pioneering underground pressurized water reactors, targeting data centers. Read why FISN stock is a ...

Berlin, 1938. In uranium experiments conducted by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, scientists discovered an element they had ...

In a single experiment, physicists have measured the "excess" emission of high-energy gamma rays from more than a dozen heavy, unstable atomic nuclei. Mapping the gamma-ray emissions of so many ...

Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a ...

Seventy years ago, at the dawn of the nuclear age, atomic energy was viewed as the next great hope of modern civilization. Lewis Strauss, then the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, infamously ...