Reactor buildings for VVER-1200 reactors are equipped with a system of double (external and internal) containment shells.

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

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

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

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

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

Federal judges on Monday worried that the owner of California’s last nuclear power plant has not checked the condition of a reactor core for more than a ...

A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged ...

said the bankruptcy filing underlined the large numbers of small nuclear start-ups currently in the market – many of which are bound to fail. He said: “There are more than 80 new reactor ...

IEEE Spectrum published the story of the miraculous reactor, which PPPL built last year. Plasma-based nuclear fusion reactors have been around for a while, but they’ve long been unwieldy.