The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear ...

IWAKI, Japan (AP) -- Cooling systems failed at another nuclear reactor on Japan's devastated coast Sunday, hours after an explosion at a nearby unit made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, ...

Japan may reopen the world’s largest nuclear power plant nearly 15 years after the country shuttered its reactors following the Fukushima disaster, according to multiple reports. Though no deaths have ...

The world's largest nuclear power plant is shutting down a reactor due to a glitch. The No. 6 reactor at Japan's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant restarted Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 ...

An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts say that the chances are extremely slim due to the age of the reactors, which were shut down over tw ...

More than a decade after the devastating 2011 meltdown, life has been found thriving in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a place once thought to be too radioactive for anything to survive.

The protective radiation shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—designed to contain radiation from Reactor 4, which was damaged during the 1986 explosion—could collapse if it’s struck again by ...

Few manmade threats inspire as much fear as the potential of a nuclear meltdown. The fact that "Chernobyl," once an obscure Ukrainian town, is now globally recognized as a synonym for catastrophe ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for both the Department of Energy and the U.S.

TOKYO (AP) — The world’s largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic ...