Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Building a nuclear power plant is hard work, and it would be especially more difficult, at least from a public perception ...

The construction-related fire on Feb. 11 was at the disabled Unit 2 station, site of the 1979 partial meltdown.

The White House says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s “risk aversion” undermines its planned nuclear renaissance. Drafts ...

Around 30 people died from the immediate blast trauma of the reactor explosion and, while United Nations estimates that only ...

Taiwan's last operating nuclear power reactor was shut down late Saturday, capping four decades of operation in line with the ...

WHEN an alarm bellowed out at the nuclear plant on April 26, 1986, workers looked on in horror as the control panels signaled a major meltdown in the number four reactor. The safety switches had ...

The Trump administration has tightened its control over the independent agency responsible for overseeing America's nuclear ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another. The tomb burying the remains of the catastrophic Chernobyl ...