Could a single mistake cause a nuclear meltdown? The SL-1 reactor explosion was a deadly incident that changed the way ...

Westinghouse has changed hands a bit since completing its last nuclear reactors, both at Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, Georgia.

Five years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was damaged by a devastating meltdown in the wake of an earthquake on tsunami, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) hosted a press tour ...

Metal rods melt in a meltdown, but it's not synonymous with disaster. In Japan, three reactors at the Fukushima I nuclear power plant appear to have experienced at least a partial meltdown.

A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania nearly 50 years ago pushed Gene Stilp into a life of activism, ...

The reopening — among the first instances nationwide of a nuclear reactor restarting after it closed — is on track for as ...

The Unit 1 nuclear reactor core glows blue with Cherenkov radiation inside the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Bridgman, Mich. The pressurized water reactor (PWR) is one of two at the power plant ...

In 1952, a nuclear reactor partially melted down in Canada. Then-U.S. Navy Lt. Jimmy Carter led a team of men to help with cleanup efforts.