Japan's nuclear watchdog is scrapping the safety screening for two reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant ...

Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and a former member of a Japanese government panel on nuclear reactor safety, ...

Study models the consequences of failure at Egypt's El-Dabaa nuclear reactor and warns the impact would extend up to 50 miles ...

Nearly 15 years after one of the world’s greatest nuclear disasters in Fukushima, Japan’s push to restart nuclear power has ...

Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...

South Korea's nuclear watchdog gave an official nod to the operation of the Saeul-3 reactor Tuesday, with its commercial ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

Part of a nuclear reactor fuel rod element. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has completed a study of advanced, better performing accident tolerant fuels being developed by three U.S. companies ...

Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might make that possibility even slimmer.