Russia has repeatedly struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure, risking a nuclear disaster.

While Russia and Ukraine continue targeting each other's energy infrastructure amid their war, backup systems are critical ...

The evolution of the so-called dread risk response has been explained by new research. People often respond to low-probability, high-consequence events like terror ...

This project focuses on the causes of the Fukushima Daiichi accident and safety-related lessons learned for improving nuclear plant systems, operations, and regulations exclusive of spent fuel storage ...

In an era of nuclear tension, the U.S. kept bombers airborne with live nuclear weapons 24/7 under Operation Chrome Dome. This risky strategy resulted in accidental drops in places like Goldsboro, ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...

(Reuters) -A huge nuclear deal announced by the Trump administration earlier this week provides a multi-billion-dollar incentive for the U.S. government to issue permits and approvals for new ...

(AP)—A group of American scientists met in Tokyo on Tuesday to study last year's Fukushima nuclear accident in hopes of finding lessons to improve the safety of U.S. atomic power reactors.