ATLANTA — In a 1952 episode that has taken on legendary status in recent years, Jimmy Carter -- then a young Naval lieutenant -- helped play a leading role in cleanup efforts at the world's first ...
A remote-controlled robot has pulled the first sample of melted nuclear fuel from inside the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi power plant, a small but significant step in what remains the most difficult ...
Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...
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 ...
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, ...