The site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine has been surrounded for more than three decades by a 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometer) exclusion zone that keeps people out.

Twenty years after Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster, debate resumes over the use of nuclear power. Two experts discuss the what happened at Chernobyl and current concerns over nuclear ...

For the first time in 30 years, a proposal was submitted to build two new nuclear reactors at a South Texas plant. When people think about nuclear power, they may think of the accidents at Three Mile ...

Cooper, of Lexington, Ky., is a retired engineer and full-time volunteer for the Mountaintop Removal Road Show, a traveling multimedia presentation that explores the impacts of coal mining on ...

Krista Mahr posted a great item this morning on Japan’s decision to stop building new nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. Atomic power already supplies some 30% of Japan’s ...

You really should not mention Fukushima and Chernobyl in the way you're doing, because by doing that you're insinuating that the two were related in the factors that led to the disasters and that the ...

“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...

HBO had a hit with the recent miniseries, 'Chernobyl,' and now Russia wants to set the record straight about what they consider an unflattering portrayal. What really happened after the Chernobyl ...

TerraPower, a nuclear energy startup founded by Bill Gates, has chosen a tiny coal town in Wyoming called Kemmerer to build its first nuclear reactor—a $4 billion, 345-megawatt facility that, once ...