On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

Standing just 300 meters from the Chernobyl reactor, radiation levels are still far above normal — nearly four decades after the disaster. This journey follows a rare visit inside the exclusion zone, ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed this week that the New Safe Confinement structure—designed to confine radiation at the ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...

In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America's nuclear power industry. "It's a hot industry. It's a brilliant industry," the president said from behind the ...

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in southern Ukraine has been under Russian control since the initial weeks of Moscow's full-scale invasion in early 2022. Fighting close to the site, which ...

Trump Media plans to merge with a company developing nuclear fusion technology, putting the president’s financial interests in competition with other energy companies over which his administration ...