Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

Inside the reactor, these materials bounce and jostle against one another, creating a fission chain-reaction tempered and regulated with water. Becker and most other observers of nuclear energy ...

In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yet ...

Any honest look inside the biggest nuclear plant in the U.S. has to grapple with what happens to fuel after it leaves the reactor core. Spent fuel is intensely radioactive and generates heat for years ...

TOKYO — A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant showed a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with ...

Highly anticipated: A team in Japan has developed a Wi-Fi receiver capable of operating in the extreme radiation inside nuclear reactors, an advance that could help robotics teams safely decommission ...

Santee Cooper held a tour of the failed V.C. Summer construction site Tuesday as part of a stakeholders meeting.