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

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

In this video I react to a Kanal D news clip about a Russian explosive drone that reportedly hit the shield of reactor 4 at ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs. I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a peaceful, sunny, ...

Study models the consequences of failure at Egypt's El-Dabaa nuclear reactor and warns the impact would extend up to 50 miles ...

Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is slated to reactivate the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in central Japan as early as Jan. 20. This will mark the first time ...