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 ...

When one thinks about the conditions at a nuclear power plant, the image that comes to mind would likely be very different ...

An electrical outage at Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has taken spent fuel cooling systems offline, leading to a potential risk of overheating and the release of dangerous levels of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moscow is planning to strike substations connected to Ukraine’s three active nuclear plants in western and southern Ukraine to ...

The restart of a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant has been suspended in Japan, a day after the process ...

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 restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic power use to ...

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may ...