Further investigation confirmed that the missing U-235 was fissioned away in a natural nuclear reactor. In particular, all five fission products you’d expect were located. The amount of Xenon ...

However, further analysis found that the uranium had gone through a sustained natural fission reaction over 2 billion years in the past. "As a result of a preliminary examination, Bodu and his ...

The only plausible explanation was that this piece of uranium ore was part of a natural nuclear fission reactor, which had operated spontaneously billions of years ago when the conditions on Earth ...

Yet, after billions of years of radioactive decay, the fission products from the Oklo reactor did not disseminate from the deposits. By learning from this natural example of radioactive containment, ...

Deep Fission, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) developer, has partnered with Endeavour Energy, a US sustainable ...

All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or ...

Each fission reaction releases a huge amount of energy ... Even so, a recent study 10 has estimated that the accessible reserves of natural uranium are sufficient for the next 50 to 100 years ...

All of today’s reactors operate by fission, but research is going on ... Some have a local natural resource that is cheaper to develop and use for energy, such as coal or hydroelectric power.

Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds of feet of rock ...

California-based nuclear startup company Deep Fission, which is proposing to place microreactors deep underground, and ...

Deep Fission aims to eliminate the need for costly concrete and steel surface containment buildings by placing its reactor a ...

With over 40 patent-protected inventions, Deep Fission’s approach leverages the natural geological advantages of deep ...