The dormant power plant renowned as the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history - Three Mile Island - may be switched back on, driven in part by the ravenous energy appetites of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speaks during a press conference at the German ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

This infographic shows the major nuclear accidents reported worldwide since 1952 (INES severity levels 4–7).

Nuclear missile silos are some of the most important strategic assets in the United States' Nuclear Triad. Because of this, silos are heavily defensible with massive overhead doors hardened against ...

A demonstration accident-resistant nuclear fuel assembly has been loaded into the core of unit 6 of the Hanul nuclear power plant, marking the first time in Korea that such a fuel assembly has been ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there's a revival around the world, a trend that ...

Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US have devised a new method that allows first-of-its-kind optical measurement of commercially irradiated nuclear fuel cladding. This can ...