Oak Ridge is becoming America's nuclear energy core, with TVA and Kairos Power building advanced reactors to provide power.

Even if Washington embraces small modular nuclear reactors to alleviate its carbon-free energy needs, it will take years to flip the switch, analysts say.

After Fukushima, Japan shut down its nuclear reactors. Now, the country is returning to nuclear energy, seen as a reliable ...

A Nuclear Nightmare’ is a documentary delving deep into the March 2011 catastrophe that nearly wiped out Japan. The nation was struck by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, which unleashed a tsunami that not ...

The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency ...

Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.

On March 8, 2026, a rumor that two members of U.S. President Donald Trump's Cabinet had commissioned nuclear bomb shelters appeared on social media. Snopes readers wrote in asking for more information ...

For the first time, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III has airlifted a complete, 5 MW nuclear reactor from March Air Reserve Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah for assembly and ...

PERRY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Backed by a new long-term power agreement with Meta, the Perry Nuclear Power Plant is moving to extend its operating license into the 2060s while preparing to boost its ...

The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, was manually shut down early Thursday morning due to a mechanical problem. Energy Northwest workers shut the plant ...

In January 2025, WSJ went inside Three Mile Island to learn more about the delicate process of rebooting a nuclear power plant. Photo Illustration: Alexandra Larkin A nuclear-power startup said it has ...