A California company has picked Kansas as the site for pioneering a novel nuclear reactor that will be built underground in southeast Kansas and is emblematic of a new generation of nuclear power that's intended to be safer and less expensive to build.
The Berkeley-based Deep Fission on Thursday announced that it picked the Great Plains Industrial Park in Parsons as the site for a small modular pressurized water reactor that will be placed in a borehole - between 30 and 50 inches wide - that will reach 1 mile underground.
The company chose . . .
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