Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...

In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of vertebrate diversity in the absence of human interference. A different story ...

Under the crippled reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, in spaces once assumed to be sterile and lifeless, scientists are finding ...

High radiation levels recorded at a nuclear reactor in northeast Ohio have prompted a special inspection by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Workers at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant immediately ...

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

The most troubling inhabitants at Fukushima Daiichi are not theatrical mutants and engineers who intend to begin their decades-long decommissioning work, but the type of microbes which inhabits normal ...

The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise ...

With the return of nuclear energy to the public square and serious efforts among policymakers to commercialize a new generation of reactors in the United States and Europe, familiar claims about the ...

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