Constellation Energy will soon have permission to reopen the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor facility. It is the site of America’s biggest nuclear disaster, which happened in 1979. That changed the

The official verdict warns a nuclear incident at the STEP fusion project in Nottinghamshire could lead to “contamination of farmland” and to “many years of farming profit losses”. Models suggest there is a 2.9 per cent chance of a serious incident over the plant’s lifetime.

The Supreme Court has acquitted two former top executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, absolving them of criminal liability for the 2011 catastrophic triple meltdown.

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to sources at the Board of Audit of Japan.

Since the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979, the US has not built another nuclear power plant. But the drive to stop global warming has created new interest in power sources that don't emit greenhouse gases. What can be learned from LA's own ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday in 2011. After a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami ...

The last two months have seen the anniversaries of the two worst civilian nuclear catastrophes in history. Indeed, as of Sunday, April 26, it has been 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which happened in the former Soviet Union. And last month, on ...

On January 3, 1961, the small Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One (SL-1) exploded at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory—possibly because of a prank gone wrong.