Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might ...

In 1952, a Canadian nuclear reactor suffered the world’s first meltdown during what was supposed to be a routine test.

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

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.

Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for ...

Eight communities in upstate New York have told the New York Power Authority they'd like to host a nuclear power plant.

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 ...

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

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. is slated to reactivate the No. 6 reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station in central Japan as early as Jan. 20. This will mark the first time ...

Such projects are speeding up, not slowing down in time to completion, says author of new book on nuclear power development.