How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep

The Deep Fission reactor uses many of the same components as a conventional reactor, like this fuel assembly

Startup Deep Fission has come up with a new way to deal with the economic and safety problems of nuclear power that is, to say the least, novel. The idea is to build a reactor that's under 30 inches (76 cm) wide and stick it down a mile-deep (1.6-km) drill shaft.

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