The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...

When you want to build a nuclear reactor close to people's backyards, there may be questions. Abilene Christian University took on a room full of residents and others with questions about ...

Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in ...

BANGALORE, Nov 8 (Reuters) - An explosion on Entergy Corp's main transformer on Sunday shut the 1,020-megawatt Unit 2 at the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York, the second shutdown at the ...

Firefighters trying to prevent the Chernobyl nuclear disaster received more than a lethal dose of radiation in less than five ...

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A nuclear reactor is a device that generates heat through a controlled release of energy from splitting the atoms of certain elements. In nuclear power plants, the heat produces steam, which drives ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...