Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, scientists wondered whether the dogs living in the area are undergoing rapid evolution, ...

In April of 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. To this day, it’s the worst nuclear accident in human history. In the years since, a 30-kilometer ...

The risks of potential accidents at nuclear power plants are compared to the risks of other energy forms by a new OECD report for policymakers considering nuclear energy. The risks of potential ...

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident. The breach at the Chernobyl nuclear ...

To the editor - Re: the Oct. 3 article, "Engineer exalts future of nuclear energy." Past president of the American Nuclear Society Alan Waltar has perhaps forgotten the 4,000 deaths directly ...

Warnings are mounting over the structural integrity of the radiation shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with experts cautioning that a critical containment structure is at risk of collapse, ...