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.

The one quick solution to the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power facility is to restore power to it. There is an irony to that observation: a nuclear power plant in need of power. But the problem ...

Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for ...

Three Mile Island brings back memories of the horrors of a nuclear accident. The event occurred near Harrisburg (Pa.), in March of 1979. The Unit 2 reactor core partially melted down when equipment ...

Nuclear Meltdown Scientists have managed to take their first close-up look at what happens to nuclear fuel when it becomes molten, as it would in a nuclear reactor meltdown. In an innovative lab ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

IWAKI, Japan (AP) -- Cooling systems failed at another nuclear reactor on Japan's devastated coast Sunday, hours after an explosion at a nearby unit made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, ...

Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and Chornobyl—these are the three lasting images that remain in the public eye when people think of commercial nuclear energy and the consequences that occur when things ...

President Donald Trump addresses the Israeli parliament after Hamas released some hostages back to Israel. by ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA Associated Press SOMA, Japan (AP) - A second hydrogen ...