The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant plans to launch a probe of the pressure vessel interior of one of ...

Piece by piece, bolt by bolt, the Indian Point nuclear power plant is being stripped down to its parts, each one a snapshot in time from the plant’s six decades supplying electricity to New York City ...

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again due to a glitch that occurred hours after ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that enables real-time, 3D monitoring of corrosion, cracking, and other material failure processes inside a nuclear reactor environment. This could allow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT researchers have developed a technique that allows scientists to watch, in real time, how materials corrode and crack inside a ...

The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant turned a routine safety test into a slow-motion war against an invisible ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...