If all workers do in fact leave the plant, the nuclear fuel in all three reactors is likely to melt down, which would lead to wholesale releases of radioactive material — by far the largest accident ...

Europe's largest nuclear facility is on the brink as a result of clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the area.

Not all nuclear accidents make global headlines, but SL-1 was significant for being the first to take American lives. On January 3, 1961, three men died instantly when a small experimental reactor ...

Another hydrogen explosion has rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, this time at the third reactor unit. Initial analysis is that the containment structure remains intact. Another ...

During the early 1950s America went bonkers over the budding atomic age. The growth of Las Vegas, for example, was partially due to a new bomb-testing site situated 65 miles northwest of the gambling ...