From the beginning, even before the true destructive and killing power of The Bomb was clear to its own creators, one thing was certain: Nobody should ever acquire nuclear weapons if those who do ...

Every two years, federal regulators come to East Tennessee to grade a full-scale emergency response drill at TVA's Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants, which together supply around 45% of ...

The A.I. industry seems set for growing pains as Big Tech companies scramble for solutions to the medium's unprecedented ...

There's a good chance you're a little too close for comfort if there was an accident: More than 120 million Americans are within 50 miles of a reactor. Here's a new tool that maps your risk.

Floating nuclear power plants are an innovative solution designed to provide reliable, large-scale energy directly from the ocean. These mobile power stations combine advanced nuclear reactor ...

The U.S. hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in decades, and since the 1990s has used simulations and experiments to verify they're working properly. NPR was granted a rare look at how they do it.

In October 2012, Greenpeace activists entered two nuclear power plants in Sweden by breaking open a gate and scaling fences without being stopped by guards. Four of them hid overnight on a roof at ...

A shut-down nuclear power plant in Michigan could get a second life thanks to a $1.52 billion loan from the US Department of Energy. If successful, it will be the first time a shuttered nuclear ...

Physics professor Yuko Fujita described it as “the hidden world of nuclear power” to The New York Times; in 2010, for example, 88 percent of workers at Japan’s 18 nuclear plants were ...

According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, nearly one-third of America’s 99 nuclear power plants have a scheduled refueling before June. All but two must be refueled before the end of the year.