Learn more here. In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained ...

This releases more neutrons, which continue colliding with other atoms, setting off a nuclear chain reaction. This in turn ...

The first melted fuel sample recovered from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant arrived at a research facility ...

Should green advocates support or oppose nuclear energy? The answer to this question and many more on the Euronews Tech Talks ...

Tohoku Electric Power on Wednesday restarted the No. 2 reactor at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture. The ...

Contributor Content In the debate over energy, the effect on climate is certainly important, but so is the impact of geopolitical tensions on energy availability. Some experts believe nuclear energy ...

The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a former base for atomic bomb testing, has lead to a cluster of health issues.

Sixty years ago, in the remote Lop Nur desert in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, code-named “Miss Qiu”. The test, on October 16, 1964 ...

The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear power plant resumed operations here on Oct. 29, the first reactor damaged in the ...

Google has signed a deal to use small nuclear reactors to generate the huge amounts of electricity needed to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. BBC News reports that the agreement ...