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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moscow is planning to strike substations connected to Ukraine’s three active nuclear plants in western and southern Ukraine to ...

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 biggest nuclear power plant is again operating, after an earlier attempt to bring the facility back online was ...

The results of two studies in the August 15 issue of JAMA report on the psychological status of workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan several months after the earthquake and tsunami ...

X-energy, a Maryland-based nuclear technology firm, is betting that a reactor fueled by tiny, heat-resistant particles can eliminate the risk of a core meltdown entirely. That claim, if validated at ...

An electrical outage at Ukraine’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has taken spent fuel cooling systems offline, leading to a potential risk of overheating and the release of dangerous levels of ...