As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Study models the consequences of failure at Egypt's El-Dabaa nuclear reactor and warns the impact would extend up to 50 miles ...

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

In September, the Ontario government announced $18-million in funding to allow McMaster to operate the nuclear reactor around ...

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has halted safety screenings for two Hamaoka nuclear reactors. Chubu Electric Power Co ...

This Beebe symposium will explore how experiences from past nuclear plant accidents can be used to mitigate the consequences of future accidents, if they occur.

Last year, a Russian “shadow fleet” vessel transported two submarine nuclear reactors to an uncertain destination in the Far ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat ...