Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...

Japan may reopen the world’s largest nuclear power plant nearly 15 years after the country shuttered its reactors following the Fukushima disaster, according to multiple reports. Though no deaths have ...

The world's largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic power use to ...

For the past half century, successive Presidential administrations and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have thwarted the ...

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may ...

X-energy, a Maryland-based nuclear technology firm, is betting that a reactor fueled by tiny, heat-resistant particles can ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for both the Department of Energy and the U.S.