Author: Fission Today

Photo credit: Ihor Ciritelli / Shutterstock When the microreactor startup Oklo merged with a blank-check company last year to debut on the New York Stock Exchange, the company said it hoped to raise $300 million on the public market to fund construction of its first power plants and radioactive waste recycling efforts.  While so-called SPAC deals were, at that point, widely criticized as a shortcut to going public that demonstrated that a company’s books couldn’t withstand the scrutiny of a traditional entry to the stock market, the move paid off handsomely for the California-based company. Oklo today is worth nearly…

National Institute for Fusion Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Toki, 509-5292, JapanHao Wang, Yasushi Todo, Hanzheng Li, Malik Idouakass & Jialei WangMax-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, 85748, Garching, GermanyPhilipp Lauber, H. Zohm, C. Angioni, N. Arden, V. Artigues, M. Astrain, M. Balden, V. Bandaru, A. Banon Navarro, M. Bauer, A. Bergmann, M. Bergmann, M. Bernert, R. Bilato, G. Birkenmeier, V. Bobkov, A. Bock, L. Bock, T. Body, N. Bonanomi, B. Böswirth, A. Bottino, D. Brida, A. Buhler, A. Burckhart, P. Cano Megías, D. Carlton, A. Castillo Castillo, A. Cathey, A. Chankin, G. Conway, D. Coster, P. David, P. de Marné, A. Di Siena, M. Dibon, M. Dunne, R. Dux, T. Eich, S. Elgeti, E. Fable, M. Faitsch, D. Fajardo Jimenez, U. Fantz, H. Faugel, R. Fischer, M. Fröschle, J. C. Fuchs, H. Fünfgelder, L. Giannone, I. Girka, O. Girka, T. Gleiter, S. Glöggler, J. C. Gonzalez, T. Görler, A. Gräter, G. Grenfell, H. Greuner, M. Griener, O. Grover, A. Gude, S. Günter, T. Happel, N. den Harder, T. Hayward-Schneider, B. Heinemann, P. Heinrich, M.…

By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction occurring far below the surface, steam can safely circulate in a closed loop to generate power. The California-based startup announced in October that prospective customers had signed non-binding letters of intent for 12.5 gigawatts of power involving data center developers, industrial parks, and other (mostly undisclosed) strategic partners, with initial sites under consideration in Kansas, Texas, and Utah. Individual…

Alpha particle detectors are crucial for the operation and decommissioning of nuclear power plants. In these environments they are exposed to large doses of high energy alphas, neutrons and other forms of radiation1. Robust, high resolution, high sensitivity and low background detectors are an absolute necessity.Diamond solid-state detectors are excellent alternatives to conventional scintillation and gas filled detectors. Diamond’s wide band-gap and large carrier mobility results in reduced leakage currents, fast signal collection2 and its radiation tolerance is unmatched by other semiconductors3. Furthermore, its low atomic number leads to a low capture cross section for gamma radiation, which reduces background…

The School of Science welcomed 11 new faculty members in 2024.Shaoyun Bai researches symplectic topology, the study of even-dimensional spaces whose properties are reflected by two-dimensional surfaces inside them. He is interested in this area’s interaction with other fields, including algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric topology, and dynamics. He has been developing new tool kits for counting problems from moduli spaces, which have been applied to classical questions, including the Arnold conjecture, periodic points of Hamiltonian maps, higher-rank Casson invariants, enumeration of embedded curves, and topology of symplectic fibrations.Bai completed his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University in 2017 and earned…

“I don’t believe … we have the ability to provide the necessary water that data centers seem to use,” Monroe County Commissioner Julie Thomas said. Source link

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organisations in more than one hundred countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.This website was made possible thanks to the generous support of New Zealand and Swiss Loterie Romande. Place de Cornavin 2, 1201 Genève, SwitzerlandEmail: [email protected]General inquiries: +41 22 788 20 63 (Geneva) Privacy Policy Source link

Parsons, Kansas, will 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. Laura Kelly’s administration.Deep Fission will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking on Tuesday at Great Plains Industrial Park. Company leaders hope to receive U.S. Department of Energy authorization and get its nuclear reactor up and running by next Fourth of July.The company is part of a presidential pilot program that aims to demonstrate new reactors by then. After that, Deep Fission hopes to pursue commercial operations. “The industrial park is looking to bring…

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Boltzmannstr. 2, Garching, GermanyKlara Höfler, Tobias Görler, Tim Happel, Pedro Molina, Michael Bergmann, Garrard D. Conway, Pierre David, Rainer Fischer, Frank Jenko, Rachael M. McDermott, Ulrich Stroth, C. Angioni, N. Arden, V. Artigues, M. Astrain, M. Balden, V. Bandaru, A. Banon Navarro, M. Bauer, A. Bergmann, M. Bergmann, M. Bernert, R. Bilato, G. Birkenmeier, V. Bobkov, A. Bock, L. Bock, T. Body, N. Bonanomi, B. Böswirth, A. Bottino, D. Brida, A. Buhler, A. Burckhart, P. Cano Megías, D. Carlton, A. Castillo Castillo, A. Cathey, A. Chankin, G. Conway, D. Coster, P. David, P. de Marné, A. Di Siena, M. Dibon, M. Dunne, R. Dux, T. Eich, S. Elgeti, E. Fable, M. Faitsch, D. Fajardo Jimenez, U. Fantz, H. Faugel, R. Fischer, M. Fröschle, J. C. Fuchs, H. Fünfgelder, L. Giannone, I. Girka, O. Girka, T. Gleiter, S. Glöggler, J. C. Gonzalez, T. Görler, A. Gräter, G. Grenfell, H. Greuner, M. Griener, O. Grover, A. Gude, S. Günter, T. Happel, N. den Harder, T. Hayward-Schneider, B. Heinemann, P. Heinrich, M. Herschel, A. Herrmann, F.…

United States-based Deep Fission has announced that Parsons in Kansas will be the site for its full-scale commercial small nuclear reactor. The company has selected Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas, as the site for its advanced reactor pilot project, as per the announcement made on Thursday. The groundbreaking ceremony for the small modular pressurized water reactor in boreholes one mile underground will be held on December 9. This marks a significant leap for Deep Fission’s first demonstration of the Gravity Nuclear Reactor. The company is participating in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Reactor Pilot Program, an initiative…