More than 400 commercial nuclear power plants are now licensed worldwide. There are 94 in the US. The destruction of just one, at Diablo Canyon, California, could send lethal fallout pouring across ...

A Ukrainian drone struck a Russian nuclear power plant, a Russian energy company has claimed. In a statement, Rosenergoatom claimed the drone was "suppressed by technical means" before it crashed into ...

Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya has been disconnected from the Ukrainian power grid for two ...

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been on backup power for over a week, and Ukrainian officials and the International ...

Captured by Russian forces early in the war, the facility no longer supplies power to the grid but still needs electricity to ...

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has now been without offsite power for six days, the U.N. atomic watchdog's ...

Both spatially and financially, nuclear reactors are costly projects — especially when deterred by natural earthly causes. In particular, nuclear infrastructure can easily be disrupted by seismic ...

Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant entered its fifth day running on emergency generators Saturday, creating mounting safety concerns at Europe’s largest nuclear facility ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers are crafting what look like gray pool balls (or pebbles) that may hold the power to usher in a new era of nuclear energy in the U.S. But inside, they're ...