Three Mile Island’s undamaged Unit 1 reactor sits next to Unit 2, which was shut down after a partial core meltdown in 1979.

A small start-up in New Zealand claims it has created plasma, the first step towards nuclear fusion, in under two years and ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

Chugoku Electric Power Company has announced that it plans to resume operation of unit 2 at its Shimane nuclear power plant ...

Station Director of Heysham 2 Martin Cheetham on the uniqueness of the UK's fleet of advanced gas-cooled reactors, the ...

THIS is the moment a robot digs out a rice-sized scrap of nuclear fuel from 880 tons of irradiated nuclear waste and make a startling discovery. It marks the first piece of the dangerous scrap ...

More than 13 years after an earthquake-turned-tsunami triggered the second-largest nuclear accident in global history, a ...

A tiny amount of melted nuclear fuel was retrieved for the first time the other day from one of the reactors at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The recovery from the bottom ...

Officials hoped to film the core’s bottom to find out ... About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to 40-year ...

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be relying on tungsten as its plasma-facing material, but a new study explores whether other candidates could perform even better.

Today, we know that the sun, along with all other stars, is powered by a reaction called nuclear fusion. If nuclear fusion ... will be used to fuel future fusion power plants. Inside the reactor, ...