Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing.
Deep Fission's reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole. The reactors are pressurized-water designs, a common approach used in everything from nuclear submarines to massive power plants.
Nuclear startups are having a moment, driven in part by the growing energy demand of datacenters running compute-intensive workloads for AI applications.
Deep Fission is targeting between five to seven cents per kilowatt-hour, less than half what Lazard estimates new nuclear power costs today in the U.S.
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