As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc investigated a control-rod alarm failure at its nuclear reactor in central Japan ahead of this week's planned restart -- its first since the 2011 Fukushima ...

Scientists have detected elevated levels of iodine-129, a nuclear activity tracer, in the West Philippine Sea.

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...

In 1952, a Canadian nuclear reactor suffered the world’s first meltdown during what was supposed to be a routine test.

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

As we despair about Gaza, Venezuela, and many other disasters caused by human beings, an even more sinister threat looms over us: The Golden Dome. In ...

Eight communities in upstate New York have told the New York Power Authority they'd like to host a nuclear power plant.

An employee of Japan's nuclear regulator lost his phone containing highly sensitive information in China while on a personal ...

Nearly 15 years after one of the world’s greatest nuclear disasters in Fukushima, Japan’s push to restart nuclear power has ...

Japan is preparing to restart the Kashiwazaki‑Kariwa plant, the world’s largest nuclear power station, nearly 15 years after Fukushima Former atomic regulator Tatsujiro Suzuki warns that, despite ...