Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 ...

“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks with the CEO of Radiant Nuclear about trying to make portable microreactors for data centers, military bases, and more. The volatility of energy prices has been ...

Inside the reactor, these materials bounce and jostle against one another, creating a fission chain-reaction tempered and regulated with water. Becker and most other observers of nuclear energy ...

Any honest look inside the biggest nuclear plant in the U.S. has to grapple with what happens to fuel after it leaves the reactor core. Spent fuel is intensely radioactive and generates heat for years ...

Chernobyl’s nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the ...

TOKYO — A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant showed a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with ...

Highly anticipated: A team in Japan has developed a Wi-Fi receiver capable of operating in the extreme radiation inside nuclear reactors, an advance that could help robotics teams safely decommission ...