In that context, it’s easy to see why nuclear is appealing: Fission reactors can run uninterrupted for years, working at maximum capacity over 90% of the time. Maintenance outages tend to be ...

Billionaire Venture Investors BG2 (Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley) have dug deep into nuclear fission energy. They had their ...

California-based nuclear startup company Deep Fission, which is proposing to place microreactors deep underground, announced its emergence from stealth mode and a USD4 million pre-seed investment ...

"After loading the reactor last May, Flamanville EPR teams carried out numerous technical tests and put the facilities into the required conditions to initiate nuclear fission," EDF said today. On 30 ...

This is a model (called the water-drop model) about how nuclear fission occurs. In it, the water drops are small (they actually don’t get much smaller) neutral particles called neutrons, and the large ...

(Bloomberg) -- Paladin Energy Ltd.’s takeover of fellow uranium producer Fission Uranium Corp. is ... as countries around the world turned to nuclear energy to meet their emissions reduction ...

One Berkeley-based company is trying a new strategy to achieve those aims by burying a nuclear reactor one mile below the Earth's surface, Interesting Engineering reported. Deep Fission's concept has ...

If scientists can do this, fusion could offer a safer, cleaner alternative to conventional nuclear-fission power plants that split heavy uranium nuclei, producing radioactive waste that can remain ...

Microsoft’s investment in AI, supported by sustainable nuclear energy, marks a significant step forward in the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). The Grin MoE AI model ...

A study led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory details how artificial intelligence researchers have created an AI model to ... components in a nuclear fusion reactor.