It was 47 years ago this week: Just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, a malfunctioning valve set off what would become the most serious incident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant ...

SOMA, Japan (AP) The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding six workers. - ...

Not all nuclear accidents make global headlines, but SL-1 was significant for being the first to take American lives. On January 3, 1961, three men died instantly when a small experimental reactor ...

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. A fire at the site was ...

As infamous as it is now, it’s easy to forget that the calamity seemed to drift to international attention as if by accident. The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic ...

Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare (now streaming on HBO Max) debuts 15 years to the day since the world’s second-worst nuclear power plant catastrophe occurred, and to paraphrase one of the documentary’s ...

How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns ...

Damage inflicted by a drone strike on the protective structure surrounding a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant has left it unable to perform its core safety role, Reuters reported, ...

Europe's largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling early Friday, sparking a fire and raising fears of a disaster that could affect all of central Europe for decades, like the 1986 ...