Author: Fission Today

Deep Fission is leading an unprecedented undertaking in the energy industry by opening the world’s first underground nuclear facility in Kansas. Their radical new ‘Gravity Reactor’ is transitioning the industry. This will be the first facility exceeding the nuclear developmental boundaries of the foregoing ground reactors. American nuclear technology: The future of electricity supply? Deep Fission is an American nuclear technology company and is working on an underground 15-Megawatt Electric (MWe) reactor that will supply clean and economically reliable electricity to industrial customers and other critical infrastructure in the area. Unlike other reactors, Deep Fission has designed and engineered a…

Plasma is a non-equilibrium system of strong nonlinearity that provides rich phenomena for modern physics. One such physical topic is the roles of fluctuations and turbulence in the structural formation and dynamics of plasmas. Particularly, in the research of magnetically confined plasmas, various phenomena associated with turbulence have been found and investigated, especially in the research of magnetized plasma for realizing a nuclear fusion reactor. The phenomena include the non-local transport1,2,3,4,5,6 the global linkage of the turbulent activity7,8,9turbulence spreading and avalanche10,11,12,13,14,15,16which are thought to be caused by nonlinear interactions between disparate scale fluctuations covering the entire plasma17,18. The investigation of…

PARSONS — Ground was broken on the world’s first mile-deep nuclear reactor Tuesday afternoon in Parsons. Deep Fission, an advanced nuclear energy company founded in 2023, is building the reactor as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. It is the company’s first project.The concept is relatively simple. A mile-deep borehole will be drilled, and a pressurized water reactor will be placed at the bottom. The hole will be sealed and filled with water, with the reactor transferring heat to water that rises to the surface, becoming steam that turns turbines. The steam then cools down and…

The model presented here combines a database of primary damage configurations obtained through MD simulations with the PKA distribution given by a BCA code to generate the material damage produced by highly energetic ions in an efficient way.We focus our research on self-ion irradiation of Fe and W, both corresponding to body-centered cubic (bcc) crystal structures, since they are widely used and because of our particular interest in fusion reactor structural materials. Therefore, the parameters and results below correspond to them.Binary collisions approximation codeFor the BCA component of our model, we utilise SRIM31,32,33, a commonly used programme to calculate the…

At first glance, nuclear fission power doesn’t seem like the most obvious area for U.S. venture capital to cluster. After all, the last big boom for building American nuclear power plants was in the 1970s. Not long after that, environmental and safety concerns, project cost and broader availability of other affordable power options, among other factors, effectively brought new installations to a halt. In VC portfolios and IPO pipelines, however, nuclear has been making a comeback. So far this year, investors have poured close to $2 billion into an assortment of companies across stages working on nuclear power offerings outside…

MaterialsPotassium carbonate (K2CO3, 99%) was purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific. K2CO3 was kept in a Napco 5831 vacuum oven at 120 °C for at least 24 h to eliminate the residual water. Deuterium oxide (D2O, 99.9%) was purchased from Cambridge Isotope Laboratories and used as received. Iridium wire (0.5 mm, 99.95%) was obtained from Taobao. Ag/AgCl reference electrodes (CHI111) were purchased from CH Instruments. Potassium chloride saturated in H2O was purchased from Fisher Chemical and used as received. Potassium hydroxide (KOH, ≥85%, pellets) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich and used as a 40K radioactive gamma-ray-emitting source during the neutron detector calibration process.Plasma thrusterThe plasma…

PARSONS, Kan. (KWCH) – The City of Parsons is celebrating a project anticipated to bring the next generation of manufacturers to the Great Plains Industrial Park. On Tuesday, California-based Deep Fission broke ground on an underground nuclear reactor in Parsons’ industrial park. The reactor will be built one mile underground is one of 11 such projects in the U.S. Department of Energy’s larger reactor pilot program. Deep Fission is constructing what it calls an ‘advanced reactor pilot project’ at the Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas.(BRYAN GRABAUSKAS | KOAM)City officials in Parsons expressed hope for what the project could…

Physical modelTo model Marangoni convection within a three-dimensional, cubic cavity under the influence of a magnetic field, a physical model was established, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The cubic cavity is configured with each side having a length of one unit. The left wall of this cavity maintains a constant high temperature (Th = 1), while the right wall is kept at a constant lower temperature (Tc = 0). The remaining four walls of the cavity are insulated, exhibiting adiabatic properties. This configuration results in a temperature gradient between the walls at constant temperature. The top surface of the cavity is a free surface, with…

PARSONS, Kan. (WIBW) – Ground was broken Tuesday on a new nuclear plant coming to Southeast Kansas.Deep Fission is constructing what it calls an ‘advanced reactor pilot project’ at the Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas. The company says it is aiming to have the plant’s first reactor running by next July.Deep Fission is constructing what it calls an ‘advanced reactor pilot project’ at the Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons, Kansas. (KOAM)(BRYAN GRABAUSKAS | KOAM)Regional leaders praised the project ahead of the groundbreaking held Tuesday.Discussions for another nuclear plant coming to the sunflower state, the project being bid…

Bill Gates speaks at the annual Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in Manhattan, New York City, US, September 24, 2025.[ Caitlin Ochs/Reuters] Turkey is in talks with US-based TerraPower, founded by Bill Gates, to introduce small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of Turkey’s nuclear energy goal of 20,000 megawatts by 2050, Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said. Speaking at the 15th Turkiye Energy Summit in Istanbul, Bayraktar said Turkey aims to achieve at least 5,000 MW of SMR capacity, advancing its strategy to diversify the energy mix and strengthen energy security through nuclear technology. Source link