What the cheerleaders aren't addressing can be found in the fine print of the commitment to enter into a "host agreement." | ...

East Tennessee is betting its role in the Manhattan Project will put it at the center of America's efforts to create a ...

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea ...

Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

Way out in the Kansas prairie, 140 feet below ground, a concrete-lined relic of Cold War annihilation has received a literal — and metaphorical — coat of “fresh paint throughout.” It’s not being ...

There’s a collection of official historical documents published by the U.S. government that — let’s be blunt — I’m obsessed with. These documents recount President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the ...

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a long history with nuclear power. It’s home to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the leading institution for nuclear research in the U.S., but more famously, the city was ...

Nuclear explosions can have far-reaching consequences on the environment and people surrounding a detonation site. After a nuclear weapon test, for example, particles and gases from an explosion ...

Molten salt reactors (MSRs) represent a fascinating intersection of nuclear history and modern innovation. The concept of using molten salts as both a coolant and fuel carrier dates back to the 1950s, ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Over a two-year span, the Southern Co.'s Plant Vogtle power complex repeatedly made history, potentially changing the entire economics of the nuclear industry with a new uranium fuel. In 2023, Georgia ...

(Reuters) - - A blast on Monday at an EDF nuclear waste treatment site in southern France, which killed one person but did not cause any leak of radioactive matter, took place amid rising concern over ...