Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

Japanese officials plan to start releasing treated but still slightly radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: On January 3, 1961, the experimental SL-1 reactor at Idaho’s National Engineering Laboratory exploded, killing three crew members. Investigators ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...