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

a known flaw in nuclear reactor control rods (which slow the rate of atomic fission in a reactor) went unchecked, safety protocols at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went unheeded, and in 1986 ...

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

The worst nuclear accident in history, the Chernobyl disaster ... technicians shut down the reactor's safety systems and ...

The Chernobyl disaster is the largest in ... of some of the safety devices and the withdrawal of most control rods from the reactor core, which led to an uncontrolled sequence of nuclear fission.

However, the Fukushima accident prompted all countries to redefine the fast reactor programs. The drastic safety enhancement ... such as the tests of control rod withdrawal and sodium natural ...

Russian nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has approved a 15-year life extension to 2040 for the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant's unit 3, a BN-600 fast neutron reactor. ; ...

Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has become an animal sanctuary. And now, scientists have discovered that these insects/worms have developed a super power! Delve in and read on to ...

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. On February ...

But there's a lot of confusion over what Trump would do if he did take control of the plants – and if he actually even wants to. Ukraine has four nuclear power plants. The most significant one ...