Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

More than 440 commercial reactors generate almost 10 percent of global electricity, a carbon‑free flow that has quietly been ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.

Chernobyl, Three Mile Island ... On 10 October 1957, a fire raged out of control for three days in one of the reactors of the Windscale power station, in northwestern England. The result was the worst ...

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 ...

March 25, 2025 Eric Schmieman worked for 15 years on the modern engineering equivalent of the Great Pyramid — building a giant protective shield for a damaged reactor at Chernobyl that would ...

The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic Chernobyl reactor meltdown was struck in February by a drone packed with explosives, which blasted open a gash that workers were still repairing weeks ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is ... Workers were testing the plant's Unit Four reactor when it unexpectedly surged out of control, which triggered an explosion and fire that spewed large amounts ...

The containment vessel was intended to cover the vast, and deteriorating, steel and concrete structure erected after the plant's fourth reactor exploded, sending radioactivity over much of Europe ...