On average, each resident in Japan bore about ¥100,000, based on the country’s population of about 122.86 million as of April ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

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 ...

I was in a state of near shock,” says Volodymyr Kholosha as he recalls the moment that he first saw the burnt-out reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the day it exploded. “What I witnessed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rose (Kerry Fox), Hazel (Meera Syal) and Robin (Declan Conlon) as retired nuclear scientists in The Children - Helen Maybanks In ...

Since the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979, the US has not built another nuclear power plant. But the drive to stop global warming has created new interest in power sources that don't ...

I attended the 15th National Summit of Local Assemblies Hosting Nuclear Power Plants.The theme this time was, "Future Energy ...

In 1952, a test at Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories spiraled into the world’s first nuclear meltdown after control rods were removed from the reactor during reduced cooling. A supervisor tried to fix ...

When the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986—precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history—it resulted almost entirely from human factors. As the real ...