The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...

The experiences of nuclear accidents offer key lessons about the role of leadership, transparency and timely communication in ...

Nuclear power plants are incredibly good at what they do, but when things go wrong, the results are disastrous. That’s why when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine had a reactor accident in ...

Let's get the obvious difference out of the way first: A nuclear reactor generates electricity that can power the world around us. A nuclear weapon, well, we know plenty enough about the damage one of ...

On November 9, 2026, a draft outline for legislation concerning nuclear fusion power generation was reported.The "Fusion Energy Promotion Bill" being considered by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) r ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

McKinley, an operator at the SL-1 reactor in Idaho, was killed on January 3, 1961, when a control rod was pulled too far ...

France has opened a new nuclear research facility at Cadarache to test passive safety ...

On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan causes massive devastation, and the ensuing tsunami decimates the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshu. On top of the already-horrific ...