Right now, there are over 400 nuclear power plants operating in 20 countries. Could they be ticking time bombs? Possibly rendering their areas uninhabitable as a result of a nuclear explosion? What if ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, on Friday said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a local truce to allow for repairs at Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Russian forces have controlled ...

Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Fifteen years after a nuclear plant disaster, Japan is ...

A sweeping nationwide study has found that U.S. counties located closer to operating nuclear power plants have higher cancer death rates than those farther away. Researchers analyzed data from every ...