The isolated — though devastating — Chernobyl accident of 1986 is often what first comes to mind when people think of a nuclear power plant. It has induced public fear and media portrayals of toxic ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, Windscale ...

South Africa’s Safari-1 research reactor’s 60th year of operation at Pelindaba was celebrated by the Nuclear Energy ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

NANO Nuclear and the University of Illinois announce a groundbreaking collaboration to build the first research KRONOS nuclear reactor.

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

Despite protests from environmental groups, Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill defining nuclear energy as a “clean energy ...

Governments across Southeast Asia are eyeing nuclear energy to fuel rapid growth while also meeting ambitious climate goals.

Cheaper renewables and natural gas began edging out nuclear generation; the San Onofre nuclear plant near San Diego shut down in 2012, and Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo was slated for retirement ...

For weeks, the Ukrainian authorities have been looking for ways to repair a large hole in the protective shell that covers the fourth reactor of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant ... and ...