One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of ...

Investors take note: nuclear power has spent 25 years in stagnation, while renewable energy has seen unprecedented growth.

The world’s nuclear arsenal started to seem irrelevant – until Putin put his nation’s on high alert. What is the likelihood ...

I still vividly remember the stunning news footage that I saw 40 years ago. The space shuttle Challenger lifts off from ...

White panels covered the No. 1 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Friday, ahead of the 15th ...

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s coast, triggering one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant was overwhelmed by the waves, ...