Fusion startup Zap Energy is adding nuclear fission to its quest for nuclear power, naming Zabrina Johal as CEO to lead the ...

Back-to-back events focusing on different forms of nuclear energy reveal sharp differences in mood as well as language taboos ...

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices.

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 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 ...

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.

The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae. New research suggests fission ...