Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has announced it will restart a reactor northwest of Tokyo on January 20, after ...

The sanctioned vessel, operated by Oboronlogistika - an affiliate of the Russian Ministry of Defence - went down on December ...

After the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. The planned restart of a reactor at ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine was the worst nuclear accident in history, triggering catastrophic consequences for the local people and the whole of the Soviet Union. The attack also meant ...

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is one of the main sticking points in U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

The operator of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture has filed a request with Japan's nuclear authority ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co plans to restart the first unit of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world's biggest, ...

If all workers do in fact leave the plant, the nuclear fuel in all three reactors is likely to melt down, which would lead to wholesale releases of radioactive material — by far the largest accident ...

Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Japan has restarted 14 reactors of its plant that remain operable as it tries ...