NEWS: An Underground Nuclear Reactor Is Coming to This Kansas Town—and Dividing Locals

Would you want to live a mile above a nuclear reactor? For the residents of Parsons, Kansas, that’s not a theoretical scenario: Startup Deep Fission is testing this concept below the sleepy, cornfield-surrounded town…and residents have mixed feelings: “It’s great that it’s here. It’s kind of bad that we’re the guinea pigs,” local Verlyn Bolinger told The Wall Street Journal.